Re: [newbie] SCO outside the US
On Friday 22 Aug 2003 2:20 pm, HaywireMac wrote: Thanks, I just pissed myself. I hope you collected it in a ziplock bag. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCO outside the US
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 12:00, Michael Lothian wrote: Just out of interest how much weight does SCOs complaints outside the US? As they seem to be charging everyone in US dollars, or is the SCO to arrigant (like most US companies) to consider anything outside the US to be of any importance? From a brit who likes not having to pay for his OS Mike ;-) Look mate, $199 USD roughly comes up to 100 schooners for Guiness. Maybe you should consider paying SCO in schooners of Guiness instead of USD? And of course they're arrogant - most US based businesses can't be bothered to figure out the monetary conversion of other countries and they're generally of the mindset that there ain't nothing outside of the US except for trinkets and beads and 15 foot stone wheels used for money...(all this coming from an ex-yank living in Oz, ay?) Else, if you don't want to give SCO USD or Guiness, you can charge for body fluids. Body fluids are rather expensive; you can drain the contents of your stomach into a zip-lock bag and send that to'em - it's obviously worthwhile to a scientist or biologist somewhere - there would be enough value placed on it with them - so why not with SCO? That's at least another option - so now you have USD, Guiness, or a bag of puke. Which is the easiest for you to come up with? -- Fri Aug 22 22:30:00 EST 2003 22:30:00 up 5 days, 56 min, 1 user, load average: 1.06, 1.03, 0.93 - |____ | illawarra computer services| | /-oo /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * QOTD: This is a one line proof... if we start sufficiently far to the left. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCO outside the US
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 06:20, HaywireMac wrote: On 22 Aug 2003 22:34:45 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: That's at least another option - so now you have USD, Guiness, or a bag of puke. Which is the easiest for you to come up with? Thanks, I just pissed myself. Well flush twice (it's a long way to UTAH. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCO outside the US
Well I am getting rather sick of the SCO Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 12:00, Michael Lothian wrote: Just out of interest how much weight does SCOs complaints outside the US? As they seem to be charging everyone in US dollars, or is the SCO to arrigant (like most US companies) to consider anything outside the US to be of any importance? From a brit who likes not having to pay for his OS Mike ;-) Look mate, $199 USD roughly comes up to 100 schooners for Guiness. Maybe you should consider paying SCO in schooners of Guiness instead of USD? And of course they're arrogant - most US based businesses can't be bothered to figure out the monetary conversion of other countries and they're generally of the mindset that there ain't nothing outside of the US except for trinkets and beads and 15 foot stone wheels used for money...(all this coming from an ex-yank living in Oz, ay?) Else, if you don't want to give SCO USD or Guiness, you can charge for body fluids. Body fluids are rather expensive; you can drain the contents of your stomach into a zip-lock bag and send that to'em - it's obviously worthwhile to a scientist or biologist somewhere - there would be enough value placed on it with them - so why not with SCO? That's at least another option - so now you have USD, Guiness, or a bag of puke. Which is the easiest for you to come up with? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCO outside the US
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 03:02, Michael Lothian wrote: Well I am getting rather sick of the SCO By doing something about the situation, all of us are showing a democratic spirit that stretches beyond geographic boundaries and philosophical boundaries; taking part in the fight only solidifies OSS/GNU/linux; yeah, the whole thing is rather sick, but in reality you're paying for your linux by at least standing up and doing something or saying something about it. -- Sat Aug 23 09:05:00 EST 2003 09:05:00 up 5 days, 11:31, 1 user, load average: 1.55, 1.25, 1.27 - |____ | illawarra computer services| | /-oo /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Idiot I may be, but tied up I ain't. -- Gaspode the wonder dog (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCO outside the US
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 05:34, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 12:00, Michael Lothian wrote: Just out of interest how much weight does SCOs complaints outside the US? As they seem to be charging everyone in US dollars, or is the SCO to arrigant (like most US companies) to consider anything outside the US to be of any importance? From a brit who likes not having to pay for his OS Mike ;-) Look mate, $199 USD roughly comes up to 100 schooners for Guiness. Maybe you should consider paying SCO in schooners of Guiness instead of USD? And of course they're arrogant - most US based businesses can't be bothered to figure out the monetary conversion of other countries and they're generally of the mindset that there ain't nothing outside of the US except for trinkets and beads and 15 foot stone wheels used for money...(all this coming from an ex-yank living in Oz, ay?) Else, if you don't want to give SCO USD or Guiness, you can charge for body fluids. Body fluids are rather expensive; you can drain the contents of your stomach into a zip-lock bag and send that to'em - it's obviously worthwhile to a scientist or biologist somewhere - there would be enough value placed on it with them - so why not with SCO? That's at least another option - so now you have USD, Guiness, or a bag of puke. Which is the easiest for you to come up with? Around here $199 USD will only buy 50 Guiness .but that is more than enough to produce a bag of puke (High quality TechniColor even if you add a Chezero sausage sanwitch to the mix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SCO outside the US
Just out of interest how much weight does SCOs complaints outside the US? As they seem to be charging everyone in US dollars, or is the SCO to arrigant (like most US companies) to consider anything outside the US to be of any importance? From a brit who likes not having to pay for his OS Mike ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
