I got a chuckle out of this latest stupidity from SCO

[greggh]

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... 7221422994

SCO uses IBM-donated ibiblio servers too!
Sunday, April 08 2007 @ 12:54 AM EDT

It's true. Hilariously true. An eagle-eyed Groklaw ninja, sk43, has spotted an ftp site where you can get binary copies of Linux libraries needed by SCO's OpenServer and UnixWare customers who use lxrun. But you can't get the source code from that sco.com ftp site. SCO directs their customers to .... sunsite.unc.edu. Why bless my stars, sunsite.unc.edu is the old name for what is now ibiblio! So here's a headline for you, and it's absolutely accurate:

SCO Relies on IBM-donated Servers to Provide Support for OpenServer/UnixWare Customers

Absolutely accurate and totally misleading, just like the headlines about Groklaw. Will we see this SCO headline in the mainstream media? We should. Simple fairness requires it. I'm sure they wouldn't wish to appear to be biased, lordy no. Or they might just want to mitigate their damages. Besides, they might print it just for fun. As we've seen, some journalists love to write up a good conspiracy story, even when it isn't true. This one actually is. Here's another possible headline:

SCO violates the GPL by directing customers to another site for source code

Hmm. Unless SCO has an official agreement with ibiblio, that is, in which case the link becomes even stronger.

In any case, there we are, Groklaw and SCO, holding hands, together at last, sharing the same servers and with an identical IBM connection. Perfect.

IBM has donated to ibiblio, as have others. That amazing sleuth, Dan Lyons, printed that piece of non-news years ago, and Information Week ran with it once again recently, and in an amazing coincidence both show up in SCO's motion about Groklaw, with SCO having the nerve to present it to the court as *evidence* that if one is on ibiblio servers, it must mean IBM is secretly funding you. And yet here's SCO, on ibiblio servers themselves.

Nevah mind.

What a small world, isn't it? So there we have it. IBM must be secretly funding SCO. Somebody better depose somebody and get to the bottom of this. Another motion! Quick! What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Hmm. Let's see if we can solve this puzzle. I believe that I have figured out IBM's cunning plot. IBM subsidized SCO by getting ibiblio to host its source code years ago, so SCO could afford to sue IBM, which realized such goofball litigation was bound to generate a lot of positive publicity about Linux, thanks to IBM subsidizing Groklaw. Eureka! That's it. Of course, I'm kidding. But it's true about SCO using ibiblio servers.

I say it's non-news because Groklaw has had a link that reads: "hosted by ibiblio" since it first moved here and the link takes you to their website, where you can read their list of contributors (Hi! Mandriva! Thank you for helping me fall in love with GNU/Linux!) and their list of collections, which is enormous. No wonder it calls itself the public library on the Internet. If your company, foundation or other group is interested in being an ibiblio partner by contributing funding or hardware, contact Paul Jones, jones@unc.edu and if you are interested in contributing content to ibiblio, read this page and this one. This would, in fact, be a perfect time for the community to show its support and respect to ibiblio, because it has been smeared in the media for no just cause, and having experienced that myself, I know what it feels like to be perfectly innocent and yet wake up to find yourself covered in SCO manure.

SCO actually submitted evidence, exhibits 15 and 16 showing that IBM is supporting Groklaw because Groklaw makes use of ibiblio servers donated by IBM. I guess SCO forgot to mention they make use of those servers too. What a freakin miserable joke of a company.