SCO is suing SCO

Jean Sagi jeansagi
Mon May 17 11:51:12 PDT 2004


This man is getting crazy...

Chucho!

bof wrote:
> For background to this article, first read 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/32233.html.
> 
> In a surprise press conference today, SCO's Darryl McBride announced 
> that SCO is suing SCO .
> 
> McBride appeared at the conference with two baseball caps, one blue and 
> one red. He stated that, as head of SCO, he would be speaking for both 
> sides of the suit, so to keep everyone clear as to his position, he 
> would be changing hats depending upon which side of SCO he was 
> representing. When wearing a blue hat, he would be representing the good 
> SCO (the suer), and the red one when representing the bad SCO (the suee).
> 
> With a blue hat on, McBride denounced those evil elements within SCO who 
> continued to steal SCO's property by distributing OpenLinux 3.1.1 via 
> FTP, even after being warned by SCO's lawyers about IP issues in its 
> tainted 2.4 kernel. He then put on a red hat and bitterly denounced 
> those elements within SCO who were going against the spirit of the GPL 
> and trying to extort money by selling a bogus license to those Linux 
> users who had downloaded OpenLinux thinking that they could use it with 
> worry.
> 
> As the conference went on, the arguments between the two sides became 
> more and more acrimonious, and McBride became more and more confused as 
> to which side he was representing. He ultimately got into such an 
> argument that he was unable to keep track of which hat he was, wearing, 
> at times, wearing one cap, or both, or neither.
> 
> The conference ended when he fired himself, rehired himself, and then 
> fired himself again.
> 
> BOF
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Atte,


Jes?s Antonio Santos Giraldo
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