Inaccurate subject: Re: [lug] GROKLAW- SCO Drops Linux Claims

Joseph McDonald joem at scare.org
Wed Feb 11 10:34:08 MST 2004


On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:35:59AM -0700, Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:37, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > On Feb 10, 2004, at 2:40 PM, Chris Riddoch wrote:
> > > In the future, Crawford, could you try to check the accuracy of things
> > > you forward, and provide a little more than just a link?  The briefest
> > > summaries will almost always be deceptively inaccurate.

Then why include them? I don't need a redacted summary.. and I notice
you didn't update the inaccuracies in your reply. :P 


> > Heh, even the "professional journalists" don't seem to do that much 
> > these days.
> > 
> > Crawford has a future in headline writing!  ;-)
> > 
> > Seriously though, thanks for posting the story -- I have a friend who's 
> > a Groklaw junkie, but I can't afford to spend as much time there as he 
> > does.  The heads up (even if a little optimistic) was appreciated!  
> > It's entertaining to watch SCO start to squirm.
> 
> Actually, as noted Chris, it is a forward from the Atlanta LUG (ALE).  I
> was in the process of reading and breaking out my legalese-English
> translation matrix dictionary before I got interrupted and had to side
> bench it.  Otherwise I would have been able to give a better summary of
> the whole scoop there, which if anyone has read through "all" of it,
> there is quite a bit.
> 
> My apologies on the title not being completely accurate for the FW'ing.
> 
> --- Crawford
> 
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