LinuxParanoid's Journal: User-moderated story queue, late-June 2003

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the second half of June 2003, then reply to this post. Submit stories both here and to the Slashdot queue (and/or your journal) at the same time. (If a story makes it onto the main page too, so much the better...)

(Question I'm debating: should I delete old journal entries for which there were 0 story submissions?)

Linux users "crunchies?"

[gnuadam]

Calling linux developers and evangelists "crunchies," an article [forbes.com] in Forbes magazine's [forbes.com] website warns that `what SCO wants, SCO gets.' Listing a history of lawsuits and The SCO Group's unusual ownership history, author Daniel Lyons warns that Microsoft settled a suit with Caldera under similar circumstances, and that Canopy (a SCO owner) is involved in a suit with Computer Associates [sltrib.com] over a `partnership turned sour.' For those of you thinking that SCO's business model prefers lawsuits over making, like, ac

SCO, Follow the money (Re:Linux users "crunchies?"

[LinuxParanoid]

Thanks! Nice one. I'm not sure what crunchies is except maybe a reference to granola-eating hippy programmers? (Just look at Linus for a good example no doubt, ha ha.)

But you're not excerpting the good "follow the money" stuff! :-) ... the article also includes the following nice tidbit:

The IBM lawsuit could bring a windfall to Canopy, which owns 46% of SCO. Another beneficiary could be John Wall, chief executive of Vista.com, a Redmond, Wash., company that last August struck a licensing arrangement with

Re:SCO, Follow the money (Re:Linux users "crunchie

[gnuadam]

Cartman voice: Goddamned hippies.

Actually they posted this on the front page [slashdot.org], deemphasizing the ``crunchies'' quote.

As for SCO getting its way, that of course remains to be seen. But the author was right about this: you can't trust the American justice system to do The Right Thing (tm).

Re:SCO, Follow the money (Re:Linux users "crunchie

[Uart]

"Crunchies" is defined here [urbandictionary.com]

Personally I think its a kinda stupid term, but whichever