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Open Source is a Threat to Homeland Secuity?
« on: January 23, 2004, 12:59:36 PM »
Read this little tid bit of humor.
http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/35042.html

I am a promoter of Open Source Development. I laughed when I read this article and the letter that Darl McBride wrote to congress.
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« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2004, 03:05:46 PM »
Ya know, I would seriously rethink using that man as the CEO of my company if he acted the way he does.

SCO seems to have changed their revenue generation plans.  It went from "Produce quality product for sale" to "Sue andybody for false reasons, and use FUD to foster and environment that I can win those legal battles easily".

Oh how SCO has sunk to new levels.:rolleyes:
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« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2004, 03:36:46 PM »
What in the world was that statement
"Instead of UNIX from any number of US companies or Windows from Microsoft, governments throughout Europe and Asia are using Linux… I find this particularly galling because that Linux software contains thousands of lines of my company's proprietary UNIX code - for which we receive no revenue."
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"Open Source software - available widely through the Internet - has the potential to provide our nation's enemies or potential enemies with computing capabilities that are restricted by US law. A computer expert in North Korea who has a number of personal computers and an Internet connection can download the latest version of Linux, complete with multi-processing capabilities misappropriated from UNIX, and, in short order, build a virtual supercomputer."
What Capabilities is he talking about and if they are restricted in the US... Well we don't Govern N. Korea.

I was on the floor laughing after reading these two statments. it sound like a high school cheerleader trying to run for Student body Pres. and whine the whole way to the bottom.
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« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2004, 04:17:44 PM »
now the best part was *AHEM!*

Giant penguins have captured McBride, and marched him into hostile foreign environments against his will


that was great....beside....all the other stuff went of my head:cry:

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« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2004, 07:56:58 PM »
That's 'cause it was all qoutest of McBride after he has consumed large quantities of a hallucinagenic material without sharing said material with anyone else.
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« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2004, 11:51:10 PM »
I'll Share.:D
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