SCO v. IBM

Message ID: 14745 Posted By: korbomite Posted On: 2003-06-16 19:17:00 Subject: The TRUTH is out there... Recs: 1 ...and will hit you in the head! We won't mention the European, Asian, South American and Canadian (and US!*GASP!*) governments, municipalities and corporations favoring, opening up to and even outright MANDATING Linux and Open Source Software, or the recent articles in Fortune, Forbes, Computerworld...and on and on and on...all this SINCE the SCOX suit. No, we won't mention ANY of that...we'll just look at the important record of the day: SCOX close: $10.93 DOWN 2.52% IBM close: $84.50 UP 2.11% More interesting was that SCOX estimates next quarter's EPS to be -$0.41, with analysts pretty much unanimous that they'll be lucky to hit that. Conversely, even at IBM's current high price (for this market), they project an EPS of $3.13, with the analysts averaging out to be $4.32. Also, by the 10K's and 10Q's, SCOX is c...

Message ID: 10728 Posted By: korbomite Posted On: 2003-06-04 01:06:00 Subject: SCO's ONLY Real Product ... Recs: 0 COMING SOON!!!! AS REPORTED IN SLASHDOT!: The SCO Group is proud to announce the latest product in its family of software products. "LawsuitCluster Fuck(tm)" uses advanced SCO technologies to send out threatening letters to random businesses harvested from the internet. "It's a great day for the internet, open source and business!" proclaimed SCO spokesperson Charles F. Uckwad, III. "If you wanted to send out menacing extortion letters before, one would have to look up the address of the recipient in a phone book. Now, with "LawsuitCluster Fuck(tm)" you just need to write up the threat as a standard form letter. Using standard variable names such as $COMPANY, $SHAKEDOWN_AMOUNT and $LIE_NUM the LawsuitCluster Fuck software will use SCO's advanced heuristics to fill in ...