On Tue February 17 2004 7:24 pm, Tim Hammerquist wrote: > Robinson, Eric R. wrote: > > James, what is the claim at the core of the SCO thing? > > IIRC, as he works for IBM, James is forbidden from commenting on the > matter. Several people (myself included) assaulted him after an RLUG > meeting after hearing he worked for them and were told the above. > > > Reading the Telltale Heart is not the same as plagiarizing Poe. > > Consider, you hear a loud thumping coming from under your floorboards. > You try to ignore it but it slowly grows more annoying and more > deafening. Finally, it's unbearable, so you call the police. > > The police arrive and ask you what the trouble is, but conveniently, the > thumping has stopped. You tell them about what you're hearing. While > there, the officer notices a copy of "The Telltale Heart" sitting on > your coffee table. He politely closes the interview and tells you he'll > look into it, obviously having no intention of doing it. > > Meanwhile, as the cops drive away, your downstairs neighbor turns his > 18" subwoofer all the way back up to 11. In this way, merely being in > the same room as the content in question has caused you to lose all > credibility with the authorities.
Tim, you ARE weird! Rich > IOW, how are they supposed to know? :) > > Cheers, > Tim Hammerquist > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug -- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. -Martin Luther King- C. Richard Matson _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
