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Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business
Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business
Posted Nov 20, 2003 17:28 UTC (Thu) by djabsolut (guest, #12799)In reply to: Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business by ccchips
Parent article: Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business
I'd be worried by #2 the most. Back in the good-ol' days of the .com insanity on the stockmarket, any stock with a connection to the internet (and later Linux) went sky-high. There was no logic involved, just a bunch of uninformed sheep buying the stock. I fear this may happen again: Google is making loud noises that it will do an IPO. The stockmarket insanity starts again. Google uses Linux. SCO starts making anti-Linux noises pointed at Google (or sues them): bingo, SCO's stock is now "connected" with Google's stock (via sheep mentality), and is riding the wave up and up.
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Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business
Posted Nov 20, 2003 20:17 UTC (Thu) by jre (subscriber, #2807) [Link]
So --Does this mean that we now need to pass the hat, have a bake sale, take up a collection for the SCO legal defense fund, just so we can keep them alive long enough to kick their asses fair and square?
Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business
Posted Nov 20, 2003 21:06 UTC (Thu) by trutkin (guest, #3919) [Link]
Ha ha ha. That's great. I think I would donate to that.
Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business
Posted Nov 20, 2003 21:38 UTC (Thu) by rev (guest, #15082) [Link]
I was thinking this very same thing this afternoon. Seriously. It would be a pity if SCO would go bankrupt A SCO bankrupcy would no doubt be exploited as a FUD point (see what happens if you get involved in this OSS IP mess?). Not only that, there is reason to believe there's going to be another SCO. So in the long run it might be best to keep SCO alive until it can be beaten the shit out of in the courts so that it serves as a deterent for a company that might otherwise be tempted to find istelf another SCO.In addition, the OSS community donating a substantial amount of $$ to "keep SCO afloat so that it lies and FUD can be squashed in the courtroom" would be a pretty bold PR move that is in my mind likely to make some journalist wonder whether SCO is right after all.
Just a wild idea.
Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business
Posted Nov 20, 2003 22:41 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
Good point...The thing that i found most disgusting about the possibility of another SCO, is that "shepherd mentality", that, the better way to make a living, is to steal from everybody else values and merits...
And if you really think about it, then the conclusion that most strikes the mind, is that there isn't sheep without a shepherd, or better, when you can only see flocks of sheep the shepperd is not far.
So better than beat SCO, the community must really think about not being sheep to anyone or anything, and play together very loud the Open Standards horn so that the patents shepherds can stay away.
Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business
Posted Nov 20, 2003 20:45 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link]
My God....read what you just wrote, as if you were someone else!!You may be right, but I simply can't believe I'm reading it. Did I get dropped onto the wrong planet or something? Maybe held back a grade? Is it some kind of prison planet, or an insane asylum planet?
I mean, it's almost as if there are knobs you can twiddle, if you can find them, to control the stock market. Maybe even drop in a few baffles and conduits to guide all the money your way.....