Upon viewing the “official” history of UNIX I’ve decided that what Darl & Co. should have done, is simply write an open-letter to the community, thanking them for being stewards of their code for the past few years:
March 6, 2003
To: Linus, Richard, Eric, Alan
CC: IBM, SGI, Red Hat
Subject: Thanks big time guys
I know I haven’t met you all personally (and I do plan on doing so in the near future), but I thought I should go ahead and start the management meetings.
First off, thanks a lot for all the hard work you guys have put into maintaining our UNIX code, we couldn’t have done it without you.
Second, although it’s a little early to tell, but I think you should go ahead and invest whatever extra “rainy day” capital into our company – I have a gut feeling that it’ll skyrocket in the next month or so.
As far as business operation go, feel free to continue what you have been doing, as if nothing has changed. For the interim I think it is in our collective best interest for you to continue developing SCO/Linux — we’ll work out the fork tree submission system in the next few weeks, I have some great ideas that I think could really make SCO a household name.
The only intangible that the Board here hasn’t really ironed out is compensation packages. We were looking at the numbers and we aren’t quite sure how to repay you for the past 10 years. What will probably end up happening is any documented capital expenditures will be considered “sunken” costs on your end. I know that might sound like a raw deal, but if you look at it my way, everyone is better off.
Feel free to send me any of your questions or concerns, I look forward to our newfound business relationship and just know we are going to have some strong chemistry.
- Darl
P.S. And if you can come in on Saturday, that would be great.
Did you see the memo about putting cover sheets on the TPS reports before they go out?
Evilution exposed! All FAKE!!!:
The Theory of Darwinian Anti-Theism has just COLLAPSED!
Paleontologists have found a piece of COAL containing
a perfectly preserved HUMAN BEING. By the theory
of EVILUTION, coal is much OLDER than mankind.
Even the most blinded Darwin-worshippers must now
ADMIT THEIR FAULT AND RETURN TO THE LOVING ARMS
OF JESUS CHRIST, but of course they won’t.
See the exhibit G (G as in “Game Over!”)
No no, he’s got it all wrong. I worship the Finches from Galapagos and started a casino on a Pacific Island as part of a witness protection program (I was evading PBS).
Save me Jebus!
Porque é que os weblogs não são uma moda:
Es el tema de mi intervención en el Encontro de Weblogs: mi argumento central es que los weblogs constituyen una herramienta extraordinariamente poderosa para la formación de comunidades virtuales basadas en el conocimiento compartido.
En Viena escuché por primera vez la expresión “desvirtualizar” asociada al momento en el que se conocen personalmente quienes se han tratado hasta entonces sólo online.
Hoy he desvirtualizado a Elizabete, a Manuel y a António.
Okay, most of that makes sense except the actual word: “desvirtualizar.”
I want to think it means “not virtual” or maybe “extra virtual” like “extra sensory perception.” Or maybe, it is “virtual relationships” that exist solely online and develop differently than those of meatspace? I can relate to those.
Comprendé amigos?
Entienden?
Oh, and if you’re trying to learn Spanish, be sure to visit Dr. Orihuela’s weblog, he’s redesigned it with a slick new interface, dos punto cero. Es fantàstica.
First post!^H^H^Hjoke!:
I, for one, welcome our new 64-bit overlords.
This is really only funny to me. As I read this right after the Athlon 64 was officially announced (seperate threads entirely) and thought “great timing.”
Too bad half the moderators at Slashdot have their panties in a wad. And too bad I stopped posting there in highschool. Oh, the things that I would give up to be a super l33t poster there. Women and my computer collection.
Just kidding about the computer collection part.
