mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Revealed root
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 15:55:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MPG.1ad62f52ff2fc7ef98968e@news.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <S262882AbUDAMPn/20040401121543Z+1658@vger.kernel.org>

 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)


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-04 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 12:15 bigfish
2004-04-01 19:40 ` Rob Couto
2004-04-04 13:55 ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=MPG.1ad62f52ff2fc7ef98968e@news.gmane.org \
    --to=bilotta78@hotpop.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®