-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon May 29 2006 13:22, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 12:04 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
At first, I trashed SCO and thought they had _no_case_ based 100% of what I read in the IT media. But within 1 day, I realized what it might be about, since I had been anticipating Monterey for the past 4 years. That's when I actually _read_ the filing. And after reading items 1-49, I came to the "summary items" in 50-55. Then it was _completely_clear_. Which is when I posted this in 7 March 2003. Something that was not only confirmed by various posting by Cox, ESR and Linux _prior_ to May 2003, but _also_ Ransom Love (formerly of Caldera at that time) in his fall 2003 eWeek article.
I've read many discovery/injunctions since.
Everytime the ignorant IT media goes, "how did SCO manage to get this discovery/injunction granted?" I go off and read the actual ruling.
And sure enough, it's 100% contract.
SCO has IBM _by_the_balls_ on Monterey. You can clearly see IBM's strategy -- be the 1,200lbs. IP gorilla with the IP, money and lawyers trying to see SCO go under before it goes to trial.
Because that's when a jury in Utah is going to smack IBM hard for what it did to Caldera-SCO -- and so they should.
And that's when the ignorant IT media will come back, "oh no, Linux IP is in danger!"
When it has *0* to do with Linux IP -- and 100% Monterey.
Here's the problem: You only read SCO's side. The basic problem comes down to one thing: Time and time again, SCO has made claims that it wasn't able to back up.
You point to SCO's claim that the Monterey contract was broken, but that would depend on the wording of the contract. Have you read it? I've not seen it published anywhere. And if, as they claim, Monterey was "essentially done except for marketing", why didn't SCO go ahead with their own marketing of it? Was IBM obligated to put it's full weight behind Monterey? IBM is a business, and businesses drop projects all the time when the market shifts. I find it unlikely that IBM, with its army of lawyers would sign such a commitment.
I have done extensive research on this, especially when SCO started all this BS a couple of years ago. One, they keep changing their complaint, or endlessly trying to amend it. Two, this isn't about a product or market share, it's a pump and dump scheme - they're using all the controversy and press to pump up their stock and bank as much as they can before it turns to dust - providing there's no real positive outcome in court for SCO. They have already been on the verge of being delisted twice IIRC. Another thing to consider is that the initial claims made by SCO regarding the Linux Kernel and violating code have gone nowhere - it honestly appears to be Smoke and Mirror (for the purpose of pump and dump of the stocks). Also, considering when SCO was Caldera, they had many Caldera Kernel devs on the Linux Kernal dev team (look up on Google) and the code that SCO whines about was openly and freely submitted by Caldera (now SCO) devs. They have yet to really produce "ANY" real evidence - it's all allegations. What they're really doing is filing injunctions and motions ad nauseum. This is a stalling tactic in order to buy more time to pump and dump. The real thing is that SCO was about to tank on the market. They were about to be delisted and this is when they started all this "IP" crap. It's really about press, the market and trying to squeeze every penny out of a company you can before it goes the way of the Dodo. If by some twist of fate SCO does walk away with something from the courts (and this is highly unlikely), then it's more or less icing on the cake. At this point SCO is finally running out of options. It's "FINALLY" getting to the point where they'll have to put up or shut up (which is what the Linux community has been screaming to happen for over 2 years). To get a better insight into what is likely the real drive behind SCO take a look at who's funding it (Royal Bank of Canada, the Canopy group, license revenue from M$ and Sun, and a host of other "curious" investors, etc). Just MHO, Curtis. - -- Spammers Beware: Tresspassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Warning: Individuals throwing objects at the crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEe2ng7CQBg4DqqCwRAkInAJsEwqIkYUZJHQanIZWPSNtjWwEizQCcCHzH LJkadXtqI4Zt0HZhAl2omUc= =hfjl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----