SCO SCO SCO!

Still more links on SCO's assorted allegations of copyright infringement. They say they're going to sue Novell. Software analysts refuse to be part of the hoax - also some good quotes from Linus here. SCO and UNIX: a Comedy of Errors. Salon has a story on SCO too, but sadly it's not available to read freely. And Wired has an old story which I think sums up the SCO claims pretty well.

Comments

Re:shareholders..

[rakeswell]

I tend to agree and actually suspect that stock price is a huge motivator in this saga, rather than an attempt to get bought out. If you look at the actions that SCO has undertaken, it seems that this lawsuit is an attempt to inflate their stock price int he near term on speculation:

1. Announce you're launching a lawsuit for a staggering amount of money on an IP/Contract claim against IBM.
2. Announce revenues are up as the result of threatening letters to companies who use Linux.
3. Publicly announce that MSFT bought a licence (I think MS is involved in this somehow, BWT).
4. McBride fodders the market with rumors that they are looking to be bought by IBM. Nothing makes a stock price jump like rumors that small company X may be bought out by huge company Y.

I'd to know how much of McBride's compensation (and other senior officer's) is in the form of SCOX stock options. It is much more common than you think, that a CEO gets an ungodly number of options as compensation and does whatever he can to inflate the stock price in the near term in order to cash in. Al Dunlop and the Sunbeam corporation is a classic example of running a company into the dirt to line the CEO's pockets.