March 4, 2004 Archives

I don't read slashdot (no, not even for the slow train-wreck-like fascination of the comments). I went to the site today because they linked to the parrot site. If you haven't seen, we updated the Parrot site with lots of new stuff just a few days ago. The server is fine, thank you very much. I wish I could say it's because Combust is so cool, but we only get a request or two per second from Slashdot readers. I guess most Slashdot readers couldn't program to pay their cable internet.

ask: I'm user 1258 on slashdot
Robert: My slashdot id matches /^\d\d$/
ask: but my username is shorter!
Robert: pfft
ask: and my use.perl user id is ^\d{2}$ ;-)
Robert: my use.perl user id (1414) is ^(\d{2})$1$
ask: alright, can't beat that. But my username is still shorter.

SCO Group sued AutoZone (full text of the complaint) for having used their libraries when they migrated to Linux. They don't have any evidence, but rather just say "they did it too fast, so they must have gotten help from IBM and stolen our code". (Note, it didn't have anything to do with the Linux code).

The lead developer at AutoZone at the time of the migration writes on Groklaw that the SCO claims is a pile of %$%#$.

They also sued Daimler Chrysler, but it's not entirely clear that has anything to do with Linux either.