SCO v. IBM

Message ID: 173903 Posted By: al_petrofsky Posted On: 2004-08-29 17:56:00 Subject: Image of a SCOX certificate Recs: 13 For the morbidly curious, I've put a scan of a SCOX stock certificate at scofacts.org/scox-certificate.pdf (As discussed in the parent article, I did not buy these shares, nor have I ever had a net long SCOX position, although, unfortunately, I did have to buy 700 shares earlier this month.) I blanked out the certificate number, but the rest of it is there in all its boring 8x12" glory, including the cypress tree, the incredibly imaginative SCO Group Corporate SEAL, and the signatures of President McBride, Secretary Olson, and Agent Lockwood. Shares equivalent to the ones represented by this certificate traded for more than $13,000 on the day CALD was listed in March 2000, for as little as $60 on the day Darl was hired in June 2002, and for over $2,000 again last October. The par value is one dime, and I'm guessing the ...

Message ID: 64896 Posted By: al_petrofsky Posted On: 2003-11-24 10:25:00 Subject: "Without Fear and Without Research" Recs: 2 Eweek is saying that Eben Moglen has written a new paper titled "SCO: Without Fear and Without Research" that will be published by OSDL today. I don't see it on osdl.org yet. Anybody know when and where we can get it? eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1395307,00.asp ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "al_petrofsky" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 42907 Posted By: al_petrofsky Posted On: 2003-09-17 09:15:00 Subject: Re: Shorting? how long can you wait 2 co Recs: 4 > Generally speaking, as long as you like. No, it's as long as the margin clerk will let you. For example, I'm short 100 shares of SCOX in a small account with National Financial Services (NFS), whose house requirement is that I have collateral on deposit with them with a value of at least 180% of the current value of the SCOX. If space aliens cause an IBM executive to state they will be paying SCO $3 billion, the price could jump to $200, and I would receive a call demanding I deposit more collateral to get me to $36,000. If I can't come up with it, NFS will "buy in" (opposite of "sell out") my position at the top of the market, and I'll be screwed. ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution...