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Today's SCO News

Posted by michael on from the put-up-or-shut-up dept.

landoltjp writes "SCO (Nasdaq: SCOX) are hosting a teleconference today in order to clear the air (*snort*) regarding "Novell's baseless UNIX ownership assertions" and other bits of hubbub and nonesense that's in the news today. Should be fun." And SCO has apparently been enjoined from making some of its claims by a German court (also here.) Cringely has an editorial on the whole mess.

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  1. The headline says it all... by ElGuapoGolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The headline pretty much says it all. "Today's SCO News". SCO is doing *everything* they can to keep themselves in the media/technology spotlight.

    Of course, the Novell bit really hurt them, and now they're getting a bit desperate. If they had any dignity they'd just give up now, but we know they don't.

    1. Re:The headline says it all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The headline pretty much says it all. "Today's SCO News". SCO is doing *everything* they can to keep themselves in the media/technology spotlight.

      I figure they're using that spotlight to make money.

      SCO's stock is way up in the past month or so (from ~$1.50 a share to ~$6 a share). Stock prices are related to the perceived value of the company. People are willing to pay more for the stock of a company which looks like it has the potential to make money.

      By claiming that they have the power to extract license fees from Linux users/companies (due to "stolen code", copyrights, or whatever) SCO has just invented a potential revenue stream out of thin air. Enough people think this revenue stream is real and sustainable (probably because of all the press that it's getting!) that the stock price has gone up. That real profit they made this quarter (thanks to MS?) probably didn't hurt either. Of course, that revenue stream almost certainly is not real or sustainable. I'm guessing that a lot of long-term SCO investors know this and have just sold their stock, which was probably the plan all along.

  2. German Courts by jtkooch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Aren't these the same German laws and courts that had the OSS world up in arms over the Killustrator/Adobe issue?

    It's hypocritcal to trash them when strange laws work against you, then cheer them when similarly strange laws work in your favor.

  3. Let's take a moment... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's take a moment to remember whose intellectual property all this really is:
    Dennis
    Brian
    Ken
    Rob
    et. al.
    "Unix, Live Free or Die"