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Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN)Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN)Posted Nov 19, 2003 5:52 UTC (Wed) by jayorke (guest, #10685)Parent article: Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN) The chance that SCO will ever get a transaction fee every time Linux is sold is very near zero. Why is SCO wasting their time? Even if SCO wins, which I doubt, they have no chance of collecting transaction fees because either (a) offending code will be removed, (b) Hurd will be rapidly completed, or (c) everyone will do an about face and head back to MS Windows. Possibility "c" really makes you wonder who is really behind this because no company profits from option "a" and "b".
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Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN) Posted Nov 19, 2003 10:02 UTC (Wed) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link] "...Longer term, expect SVR 6, which will be 64-bit Unix on Intel..."SVR 6 of course will be nothing but a Linux rip off.
It's simple stock market fraud played out in slow-motion. Posted Nov 19, 2003 13:25 UTC (Wed) by brugolsky (subscriber, #28) [Link] The analysts and press keep repeating that SCO has some chance of collecting usage royalties for Linux, which is simply not going to happen. Meanwhile, the stock price is elevated, and SCO is pay out to Canopy and others both directly and indirectly. By the time there is any blowback, the vermin will have absconded with all of the assets, and the shell of a corporation will be left to deal with the inevitable shareholder and other lawsuits. SCO will declare bankruptcy, and that will be the end of it. There is no downside for Canopy, Microsoft, and Sun, as long as they didn't commit it to paper.
Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN) Posted Nov 19, 2003 13:43 UTC (Wed) by ekj (guest, #1524) [Link] The chanse ain't "near zero" it is zero. Really. First, they'll never come within a million miles of winning.Second, even if they did, it'd cost a small fraction of the value of Linux to simple buy their so called "valuable IP". Third, even if they win AND IBM and friends decide to let them liveon independently, there's simply no way anyone would contribute a single line of improvements to a system SCO has any special rigths to. Thus whatever (my bets are on "nothing") IP SCO has any claims to will sink to irrelevance in months with customers scrambling left and rigth to get out. Not into other SCO-offerings mind you.
Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN) Posted Nov 19, 2003 14:20 UTC (Wed) by walterbyrd (guest, #11620) [Link] >>The chance that SCO will ever get a transaction fee every time Linux is sold is very near zero. Why is SCO wasting their time? <<Wasting their time? Are you kidding? Scox stock has gone from $1 a share to $14 a share. Scox has already used over-inflated scox shares to "buy" vultus (for the benefit of Canopy). Scox has used over-inflated shares to for an easy $50 million form BayStar PIPE deal. FUD money from sunw and msft has been flooding in since scox started this scam - giving scox their first two profitable quarters ever. Waste of time? This scam has been a *huge* success for success for scox. Scox insiders laughing all the way to the bank. US justice system asleep at the wheel.
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