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 This post actually left me with milk going down the wrong way !
 
 
 OT: (You forgot the best part....) (Score:4, Funny)
 by TitaniumFox (467977) Alter Relationship on 03:01 AM August 19th,
 2003 (#6729327)
 (Last Journal: 06:37 AM July 4th, 2003) SCO: So, it is down to you, and
 it is down to me...if you wish Linux dead, by all means keep moving
 forward.
 IBM: Let me explain...
 SCO: There's nothing to explain. You're trying to kidnap what I have
 rightfully stolen.
 IBM: Perhaps an arrangement can be reached?
 SCO: There will be no arrangements...and you're killing Linux.
 IBM: But if there can be no arrangement, then we are at an impasse.
 SCO: I'm afraid so. I can't compete with you physically, and you're no
 match for my brains.
 IBM: You're that smart?
 SCO: Let me put it this way: Have you ever heard or Kernighan, Ritchie,
 Torvalds?
 IBM: Yes.
 SCO: Morons!
 IBM: Really! In that case, I challenge you to a battle of wits.
 SCO: For the kernel? To the death? I accept!
 IBM: Good, then untar the source code. [SCO# tar -xvfz code] Inhale
 this but do not touch.
 SCO: [taking a vial from IBM] I smell nothing.
 IBM: What you do not smell is our patent portfolio. It is odorless,
 tasteless, and dissolves instantly in source code and is among the more
 deadly portfolios known to man.
 SCO: [shrugs with laughter] Hmmm.
 IBM: [turning his back, and adding the patents to one of the code
 trees] Alright, where are the patents? The battle of wits has begun. It
 ends when you decide and we both compile - and find out who is right,
 and who is dead.
 SCO: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine it from what I know
 of you. Are you the sort of company who would put the patents into his
 own source code or his enemies? Now, a clever man would put the patents
 into his own goblet because he would know that only a great fool would
 reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool so I can clearly not
 choose the code in front of you...But you must have known I was not a
 great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose
 the code in front of me.
 IBM: You've made your decision then?
 SCO: [happily] Not remotely! Because Linux's SMP code originally came
 from England(1). As everyone knows, England is entirely peopled with
 criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as
 you are not trusted by me. So, I can clearly not choose the code in
 front of you.
 IBM: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
 SCO: Wait 'till I get going!! ...where was I?
 IBM: England.
 SCO: Yes! AH! And you must have suspected I would have known the source
 code's origin,so I can clearly not choose the code in front of me.
 IBM: You're just stalling now.
 SCO: You'd like to think that, wouldn't you! You've beaten my giant,
 which means you're exceptionally strong...so you could have put the
 patents in your own code trusting on your strength to save you, so I
 can clearly not choose the code in front of you. But, you've also
 bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied...and in studying
 you must have learned that Man is mortal so you would have put the
 patents as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose
 the code in front of me!
 IBM: You're trying to trick me into giving away something. It won't
 work.
 SCO: It has worked! You've given everything away! I know where the
 patents are!
 IBM: Then make your choice.
 SCO: I will, and I choose...[pointing behind IBM] What in the world can
 that be?
 IBM: [turning around, while SCO switches goblets] What?! Where?! I
 don't see anything.
 SCO: Oh, well, I...I could have sworn I saw something. No matter. [SCO
 laughs]
 IBM: What's so funny?
 SCO: I...I'll tell you in a minute. First, lets compile, me from my
 code and you from yours. [They both compile]
 IBM: You guessed wrong.
 SCO: You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched
 branches when your back was turned! Ha ha, you fool!! You fell victim
 to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is never get involved
 in a land war in Asia; and only slightly less well known is this: Never
 go in against SCO, when intellectual property is on the line!

 SCO: HA-HAHA-HAHA AH-HAHA-HAHA (!!) (THUD!)

 [IBM removes the blindfold from Linux]

 Linux: Who are you?
 IBM: I'm no one to be trifled with. That is all you'll ever need know.
 Linux: And to think, all that time it was your code that was patented.
 IBM: They were both patented. I spent the last few years building up an
 impressive patent portfolio.

 (1) smp.c
 /*
     2 * Intel SMP support routines.
         3 *
	     4 * (c) 1995 Alan Cox, Building #3
	         5 * (c) 1998-99, 2000 Ingo Molnar
		     6 *
		         7 * This code is released under the GNU General
			 Public License version 2 or
			     8 * later.
			         9 */
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Q: Divide 14 sugar cubes into 3 cups of coffee so that each
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A: 1,1,12
Riposte: 12 isn't odd!
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