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   Free Teks for sale, cheap (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 11:57:33 JST Free Teks for sale, cheap

   Once Linux's Biggest Enemy: Darl McBride Dies and Nobody Notices - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2024/11/once-linuxs-biggest-enemy-darl-mcbride-dies-and-nobody-notices/

   Darl “Eat a Bag of Dicks” McBride set technology back several years. Nothing of value was lost.

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     Free Teks for sale, cheap (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:53:07 JST Free Teks for sale, cheap

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     • Nate Bartram

     @nateb Yeah, he was all around awful.

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     Nate Bartram (nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:53:09 JST Nate Bartram

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     @tek He doxed a reporter? Jesus Christ. Fuck that guy. I hope there's a Hell so he can burn in it.

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     Free Teks for sale, cheap (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:20:23 JST Free Teks for sale, cheap

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     That loser (no really, he lost every case) set back the whole industry by several years when he tried to poison the reputation of Linux and Free Software. I shudder to imagine my career arc if he’d succeeded in destroying it.

     Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} and murph :fedora: :amiga: repeated this.
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     Free Teks for sale, cheap (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:21:07 JST Free Teks for sale, cheap

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     Youngsters here, this is also one of the reason so many of us absolutely detest Microsoft. They used SCO to try and destroy open source software legally instead of through offering better products: https://practical-tech.com/2003/05/21/cyber-cynic-the-microsoft-sco-connection/

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     Free Teks for sale, cheap (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:22:25 JST Free Teks for sale, cheap

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     And there there was reporter Dan Lyons who was all-in supporting SCO and telling the world why Linux was going to come out the loser. Oopsie! He later claimed he was just too bad at his job to understand the situation (https://www.forbes.com/2007/09/19/software-linux-lawsuits-tech-oped-cx_dl_0919lyons.html). To this day I close an article with his byline, assuming it’s also completely wrong.

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     Free Teks for sale, cheap (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:22:48 JST Free Teks for sale, cheap

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     The most delicious part of the whole case was when Novell stepped in and mooted it by showing that they never actually sold their software to SCO, just the licensing rights.

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     Free Teks for sale, cheap (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:25:43 JST Free Teks for sale, cheap

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     I don’t make it a habit to speak ill of the dead, but it’s hard to find anything other than satisfaction and relief in the passing of the guy who tried to destroy FOSS, and indeed the whole notion of freely sharing your work with others. He had to know he was full of shit but he kept it up anyway.

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     Stacey Campbell (stacey_campbell@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:29:00 JST Stacey Campbell

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     @tek My 10 cents on this when I heard:

     https://aus.social/@stacey_campbell/113306249308955264

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     Free Teks for sale, cheap (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:29:00 JST Free Teks for sale, cheap

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     • Stacey Campbell

     @stacey_campbell SCO had a good rep until he burned it all down. Such a waste of time, money, and goodwill.

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     Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37a2@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:43:45 JST Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @tek That was also one of the most aggravating parts, because Novell produced the contract early on and IMO should have been granted summary judgement.