SCO v. IBM

Message ID: 199102 Posted By: hamjudo2000 Posted On: 2004-10-28 13:29:00 Subject: crabgrass fertilizer Recs: 1 Astroturfing doesn't seem to work here, so it looks like _they_ have switched to fertilizing the crabgrass. Recommendations are anonymous to people outside of Yahoo. This could be why limirics and grokwar posts are often highly recommended. Note, that I don't know who _they_ are. Are there other ways that _they_ fertilize? ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "hamjudo2000" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 179635 Posted By: b29651 Posted On: 2004-09-13 22:20:00 Subject: Tick Tock Recs: 2 the clock is ticking down the minutes till wednesday hehehehe feeling the heat scox? i sure hope so -:) since you are so whiney and all i wall say thanks for helping make linux so well known you have done an excellent job scox hope you enjoy the ride down hehehehehe in your face darl and ralphie br3n lovin' it scox is BURNT TOAST ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "b29651" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 175536 Posted By: brit_tim Posted On: 2004-09-01 12:16:00 Subject: "Available for sale securities" Recs: 8 I rarely come to the board, but am very curious on what the consensus is of the value of the US$27 million in available for sale securities. Is this just grossly overvalued SCO stock that they have purchased in an attempt to inflate the stock price? Is there something of real value here? Does anyone (outside the SCO inner circle) know? No doubt this has already been argued, but a quick search did not find the answer. ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "brit_tim" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 175142 Posted By: spamsux99 Posted On: 2004-08-31 20:03:00 Subject: Transcribing - Bert Young Blooper Recs: 10 I am transcribing the conference for those of you who may not have access to it, and generally just for the hell of it. Something interesting in Bert Youngs report: "Great Darl, thanks. The company reported revenue of 11.2 million for the 3rd quarter fiscal year 2003 as opposed to..." He reported income from 2003, not 2004 :) ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "spamsux99" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

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: 162129 Posted By: choconutdancer Posted On: 2004-08-02 17:11:00 Subject: SCO Forum Focuses on Litigation, Produc Recs: 3 http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/35496.html >> ... while McBride took the stage after a montage of "Rocky" clips that showed the bloodied fighter winning a boxing match while in a state of near-collapse. Rather than sidestep the issue of the contentious battle against IBM, McBride referenced it often for the audience of partners and developers, even laying out the main points of the suit. "When all of this is played out," he said, "the truth will prevail." >> that's right, it will. << SCO maintains that it was not the one to begin the fight, because IBM threw the first punch by taking the code. "We didn't start this, but we're going to finish it," McBride said. >> Darl, you SOB. you still haven't shown the code. you are a liar. ---------------------------...

Message ID: 152669 Posted By: hamjudo2000 Posted On: 2004-07-10 01:22:00 Subject: Re: Amazingly solid $5.00 Floor Recs: 3 > SCO's mangement is selling their options as stock, which they granted themselves, and at the same time buying that same stock with the stockholders money. > That's the only reason this pile of crap isn't below $5/share. SCO's management is pillaging the company. That's accurate, but incomplete. There are many actors in this play, only some of them are getting stock options. Darl is not cashing in stock options. However, he is getting a million a year to be the public face. If the stock price falls too far, too fast, it will be too hard to justify his salary. It's hazard pay, since he is most likely to go to jail if/when things fall apart. There are probably a few organizations that don't want to be in the public eye, but who do want to continue to get cash and/or FUD out of SCOX. How do they benefit by keep...

Message ID: 152562 Posted By: trgreerca Posted On: 2004-07-09 16:44:00 Subject: Amazingly solid $5.00 Floor Recs: 5 Just looked at today's SCOX chart. It's just amazing! I have never seen anything like this one. The *market* simply refuses to let the value drop below $5.00. This chart belongs in the history books (or better yet, in the SEC investigation files). ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "trgreerca" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 146970 Posted By: infosecgroupie Posted On: 2004-06-21 15:41:00 Subject: ping korbomite re: SCO forum 2003 Recs: 1 Sorry to pop in, but do you have any notes/recollections about what Darl might have said about the UNIX timeline he showed at SCO Forum 2003? Post, or email to infosecgroupie@yahoo.com TIA... i_s_g ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "infosecgroupie" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 140840 Posted By: thaddeusbeier Posted On: 2004-06-04 10:26:00 Subject: Re: Careless coders tempting legal trou Recs: 0 Interestingly, there are two facets of this that weigh heavily toward instead of against open source software. 1) If you open source your software, and you've purloined proprietary code done as work-for-hire for your previous company, they'll most likely see it and come after you. As they should. Copying the code into another closed source system carries with it all the potential liability, but in a way that is more insidious. 2) If you open-sourced the software when it was written, then it's just not a problem using it at the next job. In my experience, I prevailed upon my previous employer to let me write a paper for a technical conference describing the techniques I used to create the morphing software used back in the early 90's, so that I could use the ideas but not the code at my next job. http://www.hammerh...