31. May, 2003 - shitty business

• “Hey SCO, Sue Me”: What’s Next? A petition that was circulated online says (in part) I am a Linux user. I feel that SCO’s tactics toward an operating system of my choice are unjust, ill founded and bizarre. I am willing to be sued because I am confident that SCO’s tactics toward Linux will fail. If I have published my email address as part of this petition it is so SCO representatives can email me and begin the process of serving me a court order. The petition signing was cut off at 4000 people, but there were at least twice that many who wanted to sign, possibly opening themselves to litigation by SCO.
• SCO to Novell: See you in court SCO’s saying that it doesn’t matter to them that Novell claims to hold the copyrights on Unix. SCO says they bought ’em, and will probably sue Novell, too.
• See also Friday’s SCO News from Slashdot.
• Here’s a simple explanation of the SCO v world thing. [flutterby]
• Unlike SCO & the world, AOL & MS are Buddies Now. Which means that MSIE for Windows will become even more ubiquitous, complete with its box-model bugs that make using CSS such a pain in the ass.
• GM ads take high road while admitting bumps , admitting that they made some shitty cars in the 80s and 90s. And there were problems with things like paint falling off the cars. Well, yeah. But if they’d wanted to fix my gripe with them, they could have extended the paint warranty to cover the fact that the paint lasted five years and two weeks before starting to fall off in sheets, whereas the warranty was five years. [fark!]
• On a lighter note, BUTIK.PL is a Polish version of cafepress selling, naturally enough, Polish-language T-shirts. I still haven’t gotten around to learning enough Polish to be able to read the shirts, but there are some fine ones I’d buy if they made them big enough to fit me. Examples include this one from www.KURDE.pl, or this strange little man, or this dog. [marysia]
• Update: Wow. Within an hour after posting this morning, I’d exchanged a half-dozen emails with both Marysia and Marcin from Butik and Marcin and I are working out the details of him shipping shirts to me (they’re normal Fruit of the Loom T’s, so the XXL will fit as long as I’m super-careful to only wash it in cold). Since their business is only three months old, and they didn’t have any provisions in place to ship to the US, it’s not as simple as just ordering from the website. And apparently both Marysia and Marcin keep a fairly close eye on their referrer logs.

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