Twas brillig and the slithy toabs
Message ID: 24019
Posted By: diogenese19348
Posted On: 2003-08-05 21:27:00
Subject: Twas brillig and the slithy toabs...
Recs: 2
Sorry, couldn't resist. Lewis Carol seems appropriate to this mess.
This board has been an extremely interesting read all day.
My viewpoint: First, I am not a Linux developer or user, though I was a SCO Unix developer at one time. That is Santa Cruz Organization Unix, not the current folks. Currently I am only developing in Windows.
Secondly, I do not have, nor have I ever had, any stock in SCOX. And if I had any, I would sell it in a heartbeat.
Which brings me to my opinion...
I guess what I should point out first, is that SCOX did not write a single line of Unix code. Not one. What they did do is buy the rights to Unix from somebody else. Sort of like Michael Jackson buying the Beetles catalogue.
The difference being, Michael Jackson does not have to sing like the Beetles, write like the Beetles, or play an instrument like the Beetles to support that catalogue. To support Unix, SCOX does (know how to support the code, not sing like the Beetles). Um, does anybody see any indication they can?
Notice, all the licensing they have been doing is to other companies that are developing their own code with System 5 as the basis. Anybody hear any rumors of SCOX developing the next generation of UNIX? Nah, I didn’t think so.
Talk about freeloaders.... Nah, it ain’t Linux users. It is the jerk offs that can’t even modify their own code. Is there anybody at SCOX that can even figure out how to COMPILE the existing code, let alone maintain it?
The litigation:
SCOX’s case against IBM was clearly a contractual dispute. And everybody else ignored it as such. Until SCOX started dragging end users into it (And they did that LONG before Redhat, and SUSe, and Germany, and Australia started getting pissed off).
The LINUX communities requests are simple: Tell us what code infringes, we will fix it. SCOX does not want that, because SCOX does not have a business plan. They cannot support their own software, let alone innovate with it. I’m sorry, as far as I can tell, the business plan is “sue everybody”. There is no Plan ‘B’
The prices SCOX wants to indemnify are ludicrous, to the point where you have to believe they do not want anybody to sign up. If they set them at a reasonable level, they would probably get takers. At $700 per single CPU processor, yeh, right. Who isn’t going to take their chances?
So the question has to be, what is really going on here.
Insider Trading: I am sorry folks, I have examined a lot of companies. I have never seen one where not a single Executive did not buy a single share of stock for TWO FRICKING MONTHS without that sending a STRONG signal to shareholders. Not one share. All buys were from stock options (At around 66 cents a share), and none were executed without selling an equivalent amount of existing shares. Boy, that should make you feel nice and comfy as a share holder. Yeah, strong buy, you bet. Lots of upside. Um...
The worst I have ever rated a company before (When Strong Sell did not express my sentiments) was “Run screaming for the exits!”
This one rates a “You’re joking, right?”
Lastly, about the licensing plan, I wish I had said it first, but I read it on anther board:
“Buying a license for Linux from SCO is like giving in to a naked, unarmed dwarf who is trying to rob you in broad daylight”
Wish I had thought of it first.
Dio
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Posted By: diogenese19348
Posted On: 2003-08-05 21:27:00
Subject: Twas brillig and the slithy toabs...
Recs: 2
Sorry, couldn't resist. Lewis Carol seems appropriate to this mess.
This board has been an extremely interesting read all day.
My viewpoint: First, I am not a Linux developer or user, though I was a SCO Unix developer at one time. That is Santa Cruz Organization Unix, not the current folks. Currently I am only developing in Windows.
Secondly, I do not have, nor have I ever had, any stock in SCOX. And if I had any, I would sell it in a heartbeat.
Which brings me to my opinion...
I guess what I should point out first, is that SCOX did not write a single line of Unix code. Not one. What they did do is buy the rights to Unix from somebody else. Sort of like Michael Jackson buying the Beetles catalogue.
The difference being, Michael Jackson does not have to sing like the Beetles, write like the Beetles, or play an instrument like the Beetles to support that catalogue. To support Unix, SCOX does (know how to support the code, not sing like the Beetles). Um, does anybody see any indication they can?
Notice, all the licensing they have been doing is to other companies that are developing their own code with System 5 as the basis. Anybody hear any rumors of SCOX developing the next generation of UNIX? Nah, I didn’t think so.
Talk about freeloaders.... Nah, it ain’t Linux users. It is the jerk offs that can’t even modify their own code. Is there anybody at SCOX that can even figure out how to COMPILE the existing code, let alone maintain it?
The litigation:
SCOX’s case against IBM was clearly a contractual dispute. And everybody else ignored it as such. Until SCOX started dragging end users into it (And they did that LONG before Redhat, and SUSe, and Germany, and Australia started getting pissed off).
The LINUX communities requests are simple: Tell us what code infringes, we will fix it. SCOX does not want that, because SCOX does not have a business plan. They cannot support their own software, let alone innovate with it. I’m sorry, as far as I can tell, the business plan is “sue everybody”. There is no Plan ‘B’
The prices SCOX wants to indemnify are ludicrous, to the point where you have to believe they do not want anybody to sign up. If they set them at a reasonable level, they would probably get takers. At $700 per single CPU processor, yeh, right. Who isn’t going to take their chances?
So the question has to be, what is really going on here.
Insider Trading: I am sorry folks, I have examined a lot of companies. I have never seen one where not a single Executive did not buy a single share of stock for TWO FRICKING MONTHS without that sending a STRONG signal to shareholders. Not one share. All buys were from stock options (At around 66 cents a share), and none were executed without selling an equivalent amount of existing shares. Boy, that should make you feel nice and comfy as a share holder. Yeah, strong buy, you bet. Lots of upside. Um...
The worst I have ever rated a company before (When Strong Sell did not express my sentiments) was “Run screaming for the exits!”
This one rates a “You’re joking, right?”
Lastly, about the licensing plan, I wish I had said it first, but I read it on anther board:
“Buying a license for Linux from SCO is like giving in to a naked, unarmed dwarf who is trying to rob you in broad daylight”
Wish I had thought of it first.
Dio
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