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All comments on news story: Stick a fork in SCO. They're done.
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aww...	by: pinniped
Poor Darl. If SCO can't afford to give him a bullet for that handgun he carries around, I'd be happy to give him one - assuming he can manage to get the muzzle in his big mouth. The next challenge would be hitting his miniscule brain - odds are he'll miss. I imagine SCO will try to sell off some of its newer products that it had been pushing - but without the original development team, I can't imagine who'd be dumb enough to buy it off them. In any case, that won't help them much if Novell is considered a prime creditor - Novell may get its money yet.

That is WRONG!	by: Fred McKinney
Pinniped, that is WRONG! Even after the stupid, arrogant move that Darl McBride made with SCO, to hope he commits suicide is WRONG! Yes, I too thought he made a very stupid move by trying to sue others for supposed Linux infringement, but that is NO reason to wish that someone would commit suicide, as I would NEVER wish for even my worst enemy to do that. After all, people can and frequently do change. Hopefully Darl has learned his lesson here -- only time will tell if he truly has. Granted his name may be mud for several years to come (and he deserves that, big-time!). But it is my hope that he learned his lesson here and that he learns that you don't just go out and sue anyone for any reason at all. Yes, he shoulda known right from the get-go that he didn't have a case, but that didn't seem to stop his arrogance -- and look at where it got him. Too bad for him that he had to learn his lesson the hard way. Hopefully he will be wiser for the experience. And I dare say he'll be doing something else in the I.T. world. Even after that, I expect someone else will give him a chance, although given what he did, that'll probably take a while. Hopefully though, he'll learn from this, and hopefully in the future we'll see a less arrogant and more humble Darl McBride somewhere down the road. But to wish that he'd commit suicide is absolutely positively WRONG. Fred in St. Louis

Agreed...	by: Jamyskis B
I have to agreed with Fred here, and I think that it is about time that I expressed my opinion on some of the comments that have been placed on here over the past few months. I see Linux.org as a decent selection of some of the most relevant Linux-related news on the web. There's a few decent articles written by Michael Jordan too, but it serves as a good portal to the world of Linux. However, it seems to have become a focal point for puerile, childish extremists as well, something which tarnishes the Linux name. Again and again I see comments screaming conspiracy theory and FUD every time Linux is criticised. I don't doubt that Microsoft have financed a number of "independent" studies to not be so independent. Yes, SCO and McBride are money-grabbing thieves. However, some of the comments I see on here are just childish, pure and simple. There is absolutely no justification for calling on someone to kill themselves. I think it's high time that some of these people admit that while Linux does hold the economic, technical and moral high ground by far (especially in comparison to Windows), it is not perfect. In some cases, usability leaves a little to be desired, as does hardware and media codec support. And if these users want to continue holding the moral high ground, they should start behaving with respect to the reputation it has. I would say the largest problem with Linux is the community itself, and the lack of patience that many of them display with newbies who literally just about know how to turn on a computer. I don't doubt I'm going to get flamed for this now, but there comes a point where this has to be said. Linux is the greatest thing that has happened to the computing world since the development of the IBM-PC compatible standard. It's come so far in 16 years and has many respectable figures behind it. Maybe it's time for everyone to start acting respectably as well.

Well said, Jamyskis	by: Fred McKinney
That's another thing that grieves me in the Linux community -- a lack of patience toward Linux newbies. I for one can remember when I joined LinuxQuestions.org, when I was interested in making the switch from Windoze to Linux. Seems like hardly anyone at all ever bothered to answer any of my questions. After all, I had serious, honest, legitimate, questions -- and they all ignored me, leaving me to find those answers on my own. But I didn't give up...when I learned about WGA in Windoze XP, I decided right there it was time to jump ship, and I never lost sight of that goal. After all, I was after computing freedom, you see. Fortunately, things have cooled down in Linux discussion forums in recent years, and I'd have to say I've seen very little if any bad attitudes in the discussion forums of my two most recent distros, MEPIS and my current distro, which is PCLinuxOS. But yes, Jamyskis, you're exactly right. I remember several years ago seeing a magazine article entitled "why Linux will lose the desktop war", and in the article, the main reason the author said it was bound to lose was because of such arrogance toward Linux newcomers, and that's NO way to promote your favorite operating system! In fact, as a longtime Christian, Linux kinda reminds me of Christianity in that just like many churches belong to some denomination or other (for the record, I'm Southern Baptist), there are people in the Linux community who have different preferences, such as DEB vs. RPM, LILO vs. GRUB, GNOME vs. KDE vs. Xfce vs. Fluxbox vs. IceWM vs. whatever, people who prefer to use the command line whenever possible vs. people who prefer to use a graphical desktop when possible, etc. And, for the free software purists who insist on not allowing themselves access to non-free software, they've got GNewSense that they can enjoy. This can be a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing. On the good side, I think it's cool how Linux is not tied to any one particular desktop, unlike Windows or Mac. I'm a KDE fan myself, but I think it's cool how, for instance, there are desktops that work great for really old hardware. Sadly, it's also a bad thing in that yes, there's no denying that the Linux community has too many factions for its own good. If nothing else, if there's something that bugs you about the way things are done by part of the community, can't we at least learn how to politely agree to disagree? If we can't, Linux will never stand much of a chance of going mainstream on the desktop. If, however, Linux is going to ever become even halfway mainstream, we need to put aside our differences and learn to fight toward a common goal, and that's putting a major dent in Microshaft's coffers. As for an appropriate attitude to have, my church promotes the following, and I think the Linux community would do well to take this to heart: "In essential beliefs, we have unity, in non-essential beliefs, we have liberty, and in all our beliefs, we show charity." If Linux is going to become even halfway mainstream on the desktop, the community would do well to adopt those kinds of attitudes. Fred in St. Louis