From crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.net Sun Nov 9 21:53:22 2003 From: crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.net (Crawford Rainwater) Date: 09 Nov 2003 21:53:22 -0700 Subject: [Nclug-discuss] SCO vs. Hollywood (from /.) Message-ID: <1068431878.2542.1.camel@alpha.linux-etc.net> For those who snoozed some on SCO, this was on /. yesterday. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/08/1545253&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=185&tid=187&tid=188&tid=88&tid=97 (Pardon the long link and potential wrapping for some folks.) So does anyone see a pattern so far, aside the "cart before the horse" once again? >From a business point of view, I will speculate that McBride is trying to pick a fight with folks with "deep pockets" (e.g., IBM and Hollywood producers like George Lucas and Steve Spielburg (SP?)) in order for them to (a) pay up with the logic from that being "it must be true what we have been saying..." (though I sort of lost track of what their real case is now a days); or (b) buy us out so I can sell off SCO and have that ivory back scratcher per month and golden parachute today logic. However, the cart before the horse once again shows up, but Hollywood is not as patient nor as IP or technically legal savvy, so I feel they might just pay off SCO from a risk management point of view instead of standing their grounds. I wonder how far along the SEC is with their investigation and wondering if anyone (in the CO area) has been asked to pay for the "SCO license". In particular the houses that use Linux on a "large scale" (e.g., tummy.com's and such)? I wonder if this is a dog psychology pissing match between big bucks vs. grass roots> I wonder, if there were enough LUGs in the US to pool together and purchase the remaining SCO stock out there, is it possible to pull a large majority of vote to over rule McBride and company to stop harassing something that I feel most LUG related folks admire and love? --- Crawford The Linux ETC Company P.M.B. 146 368 South McCaslin Boulevard Louisville, CO 80027 USA +1 (303) 604-2550 (voice) +1 (866) 604-2550 (toll free within the US) +1 (303) 664-0036 (fax) http://www.linux-etc.net