Re: Blake Stowell said Linux ABI is not infringing!

From: JamesDad (mewnewsARROGANCE_at_mailandnews.com)
Date: 12/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 03:31:30 GMT

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 19:53:58 GMT, joe@blahblah.invalid (Joe Dunning)
wrote:

>Once again, I ask the fence-sitters: at what point do you actively
>DISBELIEVE SCO's claims? Surely any doubt that SCO's management are
>lying has to have gone now?

Joe, I'd appreciate it if you'd go back to the thread I started, "FyRE,
I'm curious about you, too" and make a reply regarding yourself to the
questions I asked him. I really would like to know where you're coming
from and what your goal is in posting here.

I'm beginning to wonder whether you have a legitimate, realistic agenda or
if you're just a plain old troll. I'm having to force myself to refrain
from doing long-distance psychoanalysis.

I believe that any thinking person who has followed this whole fiaSCO (bad
pun intended) understands that SCO's management has repeatedly lied
through their teeth. Does that mean that we're all going to paint Darl
McBride, Chris Sontag and Blake Scowell as the Trinity of Evil, the
Three-in-One Antichrist, the combined Emperor, Darth Vader and the Death
Star; with the result that every participant on this newsgroup is going to
descend on their homes with swords, torches and material with which to
burn them at the stake? That's an unreasonable assumption, to put it
mildly.

Plus, if I had the slightest allegiance to SCO, your potshots (including
one on Christmas Eve--Good Grief!) would tend to drive me to greater
allegiance in reaction and because I didn't want to be associated people
holding the attitude you project. NOTE: I said ATTITUDE, not substance,
facts, opinions or anything else. ATTITUDE.

For myself, I look forward to the day when SCO is (at least figuratively)
a Caldera (a smoking crater left after a volcanic explosion). And the
wheels of justice *are* turning--slowly, but they're turning. And I
probably agree with most or all of the things you say. But I have no
desire to be associated in anyone's mind with the Three Amigos of Brian,
FyRE and you. Not as long as potshots, personal attacks and name-calling
are part of your M.O. I particularly have noted the abuse and derision
that has been heaped on Tony Lawrence by the Three Amigos. I've noted
where he stands, and you and he are really not that far apart. But it
seems that he's on the Hit List because he refuses to become equally rabid
about the issues and because he seems to want to approach things fairly
and even-handedly. He's got an open mind, and it doesn't take long for an
open mind to be convinced, especially considering the lunacy that comes
out of Lindon, Utah. But he's not going to be pushed.

Have you considered that by your standards, *IBM* and *Red Hat* and *Linus
Torvalds*, among others, are the enemy? They're not coming out with
cannons blazing at SCO. They're patiently feeding SCO plenty of rope that
SCO's execs will eventually hang themselves with. They're playing it cool.
They *are" cool. You could learn a lot from them.

SCO's execs can be jerks all the day long (and as far as I'm concerned,
they do and do it well), but that doesn't mean anyone else has to be.

Think about it. I dare you. Any response you make will make it plainly
evident whether you have. 

-- 
I'm Mike--James' Dad, hence "JamesDad". I use this nym in memory of my 
son James Webb (1992-2000) who died fighting leukemia. He was a greater 
man at 8 than some ever become. May his life, battle and story never be
forgotten! More info at <http://www.themiraclekids.com/mem-james.htm>. 
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