SCO Who's the real villian ?
Consider the following: If SCO prevails, Who stands to gain the most ? If SCO loses and Litigation lasts for years, who stands to gain the most ? SCO sends out 1500 letters questioning the legal liability that Linux may present the end user, who stands to gain the most ? Gary Ernst
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 11:03, Gary Ernst wrote:
Consider the following: If SCO prevails, Who stands to gain the most ? If SCO loses and Litigation lasts for years, who stands to gain the most ? SCO sends out 1500 letters questioning the legal liability that Linux may present the end user, who stands to gain the most ?
Gary Ernst
I was discussing this matter with a friend of mine today. I wonder if this is more of a marketing ploy rather than an actual threat. The term "there is no such thing as bad publicity" can kind of be used here. On one hand they're getting their name out in world more than ever, but they might be dirtying themselves in the mean time. Novell came out and said put up or shut up and there was no real reply to that. I'm thinking there's more to this than just the copyright and licensing thing...but what it is, I don't know. Marketing ploy??????? Just a thought. -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
Gary Ernst wrote:
Consider the following: If SCO prevails, Who stands to gain the most ? If SCO loses and Litigation lasts for years, who stands to gain the most ? SCO sends out 1500 letters questioning the legal liability that Linux may present the end user, who stands to gain the most ?
MickySoft, of course! Fred -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
Gary Ernst wrote:
Consider the following: If SCO prevails, Who stands to gain the most ? If SCO loses and Litigation lasts for years, who stands to gain the most ? SCO sends out 1500 letters questioning the legal liability that Linux may present the end user, who stands to gain the most ?
MickySoft, of course!
Ah ... you have to feel for poor Billy. His days are just getting worse all the time. - Loses to Linux in Munich http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=2837894 - Has to pull security update for XP because it shuts down the internet connection (and stops his spyware) http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ZXNEEJFR2YKICCRBAELCFEY?type=technologyNews&storyID=2831325 and just in ..... - Loses $750M to AOL for killing Netscape and may have to take a $.05 write-down http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/29/technology/microsoft/index.htm
Ah ... you have to feel for poor Billy. His days are just getting worse all the time.
- Loses to Linux in Munich http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=28378 94
- Has to pull security update for XP because it shuts down the internet connection (and stops his spyware) http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ZXNEEJFR2YKICCRBAELCFE Y?type=technologyNews&storyID=2831325
and just in .....
- Loses $750M to AOL for killing Netscape and may have to take a $.05 write-down http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/29/technology/microsoft/index.htm
""While our companies will continue to compete, I'm pleased that we've been able to resolve our prior dispute, and I'm excited about the opportunity to work together collaboratively to make the digital decade a reality," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in a statement." Translation. "We're getting our butt kicked left and right and need to reestablish partnerships to try to plug the holes in our revenue stream, and we can always stab them in the back later.... Say in 7 years". And no exclusive deals, that should help to cushion the $0.03/share that realnetworks took after the deal was announced. But, despite the fact that AOL said it's Netscape division isn't slated to be shutdown, one must wonder. And Mozilla...? Hmmm. M$ has 46 billion in funds, so $750 mil isn't that big of a hit, but if one considers the bigger picture of dismal home and entertainment division losses and other divisions just treading water. Now the M$ server division is yet to be posted, could we see a decline in revenues in this department. Could M$ be trying to play nice now? Only because it wants something, like no long and lengthy, press ridden anti-trust torts and legal fees. Now it will all go away in 6 months or so. Hmmm, wouldn't that be the time when Munichs new Linux/OSS implimentations go on line? And AOLs debt gets lightened a bit, though falling subscriptions are still a reality. Yep, two wounded ducks waiting to go lame. Cheers, Curtis.
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Tom Nielsen