Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262382AbUDDOAQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:00:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262391AbUDDOAQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:00:16 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:35214 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262382AbUDDOAL (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:00:11 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Giuseppe Bilotta Subject: Re: Revealed root Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 15:55:28 +0200 Organization: Bilotta Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-63-140.29-151.libero.it X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1374 Lines: 29 wrote: > > One of our reporters has collected the testimony of a SCO secretary. > The woman, Darlyn McBride, confessed the sad story of Linux lawsuit origin. > > I was hired on Thursday 27 June 2002 [1] and since than I worked for our > management creating short reports from technology and analysts websites. On > Wednesday 22 January 2003 I delivered a report with a mispelling error > inside. I was quoting an enterprise environment analysis that suggested to > start "using Linux". Sadly I misplaced the first letter, so I wrote "suing > Linux". Few hours later I discovered the error after the company announced > [2] that has "estabilished SCOsource to License Unix Intellectual Property". > I'm sorry if a little error is causing so many problems, but I'm sure that > this situation will have a happy end. > > > [1] http://ir.sco.com/releases.cfm?Year=2002 > [2] http://ir.sco.com/releases.cfm?Year=2003 Surely among the best April's fool up to now :) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta Can't you see It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollar and cents Pounds shillings and pence (Roger Waters) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/