SCO v. IBM

Message ID: 120536 Posted By: ColonelZen Posted On: 2004-04-05 23:53:00 Subject: 10.50 Wild speculation Recs: 2 Let's try this. SCO itself, other than lining the exec's pockets , doesn't need the 10.50 as the redemption option is theirs. But the skull sweat of others here suggests that someone spent around 4M to push it up there. The only other interested party who would care about the 10.50 is BayStar so why would they? To keep SCO from executing an option they can't afford to execute. Which, (donning tinfoil hat with pink puffball at the crown) might suggest that they think SCO just *might* try a suicide play to extort more money out of them (I. e deliver the redemption note), which 5 days later allows them to declare bankruptcy. Which give rise to three more questions (clear indicator that we've gone beyond what the facts allow us to speculate on, but fun anyway) Why does BS care? Their money's gone anyway. Because it looks bad...

Message ID: 80797 Posted By: ColonelZen Posted On: 2004-01-14 11:04:00 Subject: Memo to the judge... Recs: 1 Please don't rip them a new one. The amount of excrement they produce is already overwhelming and I shudder to think what they could do with another... ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "ColonelZen" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 79657 Posted By: ColonelZen Posted On: 2004-01-12 12:38:00 Subject: Re: I don't like the IBM Recs: 2 An interesting sentiment. With IBM, far more than most corporations, you have to remember that it isn't a monolith with a single personality. This, of course holds for MS and SCOX as well, but MS is basically a 'cult of personality' around BG and SCOX has devolved into a shell selling it's 'pump and dump' strategy while the Canopy shareholders maneuver to fleece the sheep. IBM too, you should remember is a 'convicted monopolist' ... albeit 30 years out. My carreer has tracked IBM as a techie... I began working as a sysprog on mainframes, In the early 90's the mainframe was dying and I thought IBM was at the end of days. I suffered periods of unemployment and thought IBM, as I had seen it represented by its mainframe reps was, if not evil at least ignorant and doomed by self absorbsion. ... I switched my focus to ...