What Scares Dan Lyons

Message ID: 72206
Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-12-16 22:46:00
Subject: What Scares Dan Lyons

What REALLY scares Uncle Dan, the SCO man and paid shill to Microsoft and the rest of the status quo dinosaurs in proprietary software is that Free/Libre Open Source Software includes the Collective Commons License.

What REALLY scare Dan Lyons is that PJ has more readers than he does. He is as much a "failed business" as Microsoft and SCO. That is why he is on their side.

k

Message ID: 72212
Posted By: slimshady_1901
Posted On: 2003-12-16 22:57:00
Subject: Re: What Scares Dan Lyons

Lyons says we are all a bunch of amateurs who are often wrong and in general make a lot of noise mostly in futility.

Agreed.

So? I honestly fail to see the point of the article. Is Lyons trying to parody the SCOX board? If so we should be flattered. A professional(?) is so jealous of a bunch of volunteer amateurs that he has to stoop this low?

Message ID: 72218
Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-12-16 23:11:00
Subject: Re: What Scares Dan Lyons

He lied and mis-quoted me.

I have the emails he sent me and am looking now to find one single post where I used the words he attributes to me.

I have not found them yet.

Lyons is so full of fear that he has committed the same sins that got other journalists fired at the New York Times and other papers.

I promised him I would save his threatening emails to me "for laters." Is it "laters?'

More to come.

k

Message ID: 72221
Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-12-16 23:18:00
Subject: Re: What Scares Dan Lyons

It's not just the tech forums...or any forums for that matter...it is the whole site.

Forbes, and print mags in general are dying, and blogging and fora like /. and Groklaw are stealing bandwidth from them. Forbes doesn't get it. They make it HARD to contribute and easy to read the drivel idiots and liars like Lyons continue to write. It will be interesting to see if any of his articles make the print version of the magazine. If this one does, in toto, without corrections, I will be seeing my attorney. I have already discussed with her the on-line misquotes and lies.

Magazines like Forbes are where the networks were in 1979. We on the Internet, especially at /. and Groklaw and here are cable.

Magazines are going the way of the dinosaur and Dan's buddy BillG may just put Danny-boy out of a job...if his unethical 'journalism' doesn't first, of course.

k

Message ID: 72228
Posted By: diogenese19348
Posted On: 2003-12-16 23:25:00
Subject: Re: What Scares Dan Lyons

<<
It's not just the tech forums...or any forums for that matter...it is the whole site.

Forbes, and print mags in general are dying, and blogging and fora like /. and Groklaw are stealing bandwidth from them. Forbes doesn't get it. They make it HARD to contribute and easy to read the drivel idiots and liars like Lyons continue to write. It will be interesting to see if any of his articles make the print version of the magazine. If this one does, in toto, without corrections, I will be seeing my attorney. I have already discussed with her the on-line misquotes and lies.

Magazines like Forbes are where the networks were in 1979. We on the Internet, especially at /. and Groklaw and here are cable.

Magazines are going the way of the dinosaur and Dan's buddy BillG may just put Danny-boy out of a job...if his unethical 'journalism' doesn't first, of course.
>>

Frankly that appears to be true. It isn't just that the dead tree issue will die, it is that the on-line version is subservient. I had to go through some major manipulations, free mind you, but manipulations, to post a damned comment. Even letters to the editor were easier. Wellllll..... not really. I did not need to stick it in an envelope and mail it, and it was posted 10 minutes later. But you know what I mean.

Information communication is changing. Those that don't catch on... Well, does anybody need a buggy whip?

Message ID: 72230
Posted By: i_am_fava
Posted On: 2003-12-16 23:26:00
Subject: Re: What Scares Dan Lyons

I believe he is quoting from message 65245

Long-Term Sentiment Disclosure:
Run away, run far far away.

Message ID: 72234
Posted By: heimdal31
Posted On: 2003-12-16 23:31:00
Subject: Re: What Scares Dan Lyons

<< He lied and mis-quoted me.

I have the emails he sent me and am looking now to find one single post where I used the words he attributes to me.>>

Try 65245. It was a good post, but it also explains to me why Lyons bothered to drag Enderle and his terrorist quote into the article.

Sorry if someone else has already posted this. I'm still catching up.

Message ID: 72240
Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-12-16 23:40:00
Subject: Re: What Scares Dan Lyons

I'm checking with my lawyers and other legal staff as to my liabilities. If I do it here, I also want to inform Forbes' Editor, as calling a journalist a liar is VERY serious and could result in Mr. Lyons losing his job and, as he has said on the Forbes board, his livelihood. That makes for a bit of a liability consideration, so I am confirming that I have not said anything in the past on this or other boards that would be construed as my "single-mindedly working for the destruction of this company" (SCO).

The only things I am "single-minded" about anymore is the success of my company and employees and my family.

k

Message ID: 72242
Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-12-16 23:44:00
Subject: Re: What Scares Dan Lyons

Got it.

My apologies to Mr. Lyons.

He gets involved in an email discussion with me and uses a more recent quote (I started my search back a bit earlier.

Count is on target too.

k

Message ID: 72261
Posted By: walterbyrd
Posted On: 2003-12-17 00:08:00
Subject: Re: What Scares Dan Lyons

Seems to the main point of that post was to express your rightful outrage at being called a terrorist by McBride. Considering your distingished military career, that comment by sleazebag mcbride was way out of line.

Yet, Lyons completely ignored mcbride's comments, and the true subject of that post.

Extremely selective quoting on the part of lyons, I would say.

Message ID: 72278
Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-12-17 02:09:00
Subject: Re: What Scares Dan Lyons

Thank you, walter, but he did get it right, and I spoke here before thinking and finishing the research.

Selective, yes, but that makes me no less wrong.

k

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