SCO's Other Investor: Sun Microsystems

Vicegrip writes "Apparently Sun not only bought extra licenses from SCO, but also obtained the option to buy a nice stake in the company: 'The pact, signed earlier this year, expanded the rights Sun acquired in 1994 to use Unix in its Solaris operating system. But there's more to the relationship: SCO also granted Sun a warrant to buy as many as 210,000 shares of SCO stock at $1.83 per share as part of the licensing deal, according to a regulatory document filed Tuesday.'" A reader points out Ransom Love's 2000 Linuxworld keynote speech.

Comments

What a coincidence.

[mikeophile]

Since IBM has the option of planting a nice stake in SCO.

I hope the IBM lawyers appreciate our efforts

[burgburgburg]

They can continue to charge their hourly rates and half the time, they just have to come here to begin finding more evidence to bury SCO. Geeks are doing their legwork.

Think of it as open-source lawyering.

How is SCO's Lawsuit affecting sales of Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

If I were a CIO or CTO debating the TCO of *nix vs. Win2K3 to a CEO, would IBM vs. SCO be the TKO that stops the CEO from approving A/P to pay my PO for RH's LGX?

FWIW, even if OSS is FAIB, if the DOJ considers *nix IP with a TM, then it basically become's SCO's LIC, meaning our OSS becomes a CSS OS, which would RSTBO.

AIBO going w/ an ASP that manages our OS? BTA, we might end up w/ a BOFH giving us ZA, which WWAD PMS.

AFAIK, INMP if SCO wants to be ITM by enforcing its supposed IPR - *nix IP should be PD or GNU, like BSD just on GP, IYKWIM. I keep asking myself in this situation - WWLD?

Oh, BTW - IITYWIMWYBMAD?

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Love Ransom

[berkeleyjunk]

Ransom Love. Nice man to work for SCO ;-)

Incredible hidden meaning!!!!

[gregfortune]

Interestingly enough, if you take the total dollar amount of 384,300, you can find the following:

1. First, split the number in half and consider 384.
   
2. Number alphabet starting from 0 (of course that's how it is numbered, silly).
   
3. Translate to alpha by mapping 3 to D, 8 to I, and 4 to E.
   
4. Neat, that spells Die
   
5. Now, consider 300... We also need to note that the numbre preceding 300 is a 4. Also note that the evil genius who made this code forces us to renumber the alphabet again, but this time starting with 1. (This is going to be trickier)
   
6. Now, for each index, add 5 * the value at that index plus the value at the previous index. For example, the first index (3) would be 5*3 + 4 = 19. The second index (0) is 5*0 + 3 = 3 and the third index is 5*0 + 0=0
   
7. So now we are left with 19,3,0
   
8. Translated that is SC, but the 0 doesn't work in the new number scheme for the alphabet. Obviously the evil genius expects us to translate 0 to O.
   
9. That leaves the last three letters as SCO
   
10. Now, putting the two chunks together, we can see that the value Sun negotiated for was really "Die SCO"
    
    Clearly, Sun is on our side.

I'm sorry, but...

[Z0mb1eman]

...that HAS to be the nerdiest post I've ever read on Slashdot!

And that's quite an accomplishment, sir :)

Which one did you just add?

[expro]

Which one did you just add?

Re:Shares

[Anonymous Coward]

They sold short?!?

[senfield]
"That's *my* move!"
[/seinfeld]

I was with you...

[eupheric]

right up until the goat part.

Re:hmm...

[Craig Maloney]

I'd be more concerned about having to work with AIX than whether or not the license for AIX will spontaneously combust in a flurry of litigation.

Personal preference.. that's all.

With apologies to..well everyone!

[IWantMoreSpamPlease]

Scene: Fancy Restaurant

Enter a certain Well Known Penguin.

Waiter: Morning, welcome to the Lawsuit and Buyout Cafe, sit right here and may I take your order?

CWKP: (scanning menu) Morning! Well, what have you got?

Waiter: Well there's IBM; IBM and Redhat; IBM and SCO; IBM, Redhat and SCO; SCO, IBM, Redhat and Sun; SCO, IBM, Sun and Redhat; SCO, SCO, Redhat and SCO; SCO, SCO, SCO, and SCO;

Background voices: SCO! SCO! SCO! SCO! Lovely SCO!

Waiter: Or you can have any distro of Linux you want with a nice side of SCO.

CWKP: Do you have anything without SCO?

Waiter: Well there's SCO, Ibm, Redhat and Sun, that's not too tied up in SCO.

CWKP: You dont' understand, I don't want ANY SCO!

etc
etc
etc
etc
ad nausuem.

Re:Nope

[Chris Burke]

Awww... A large corporation can't use work developed by volunteers in their spare time for free in their own non-free product! It's so tragic, like a sick puppy!

A sick, demented puppy.

With a heart full of evil. That wants to eat your children and steal your source code. Or something.

I need coffee.

Re:This is a very interesting development

[ryanvm]

Some have theorized that some power behind SCO is manipulating them to try to destroy Linux, much the same way that Emporer Palpatine manipulated Vader to destroy Luke and the rebels.

Good lord, tell me you don't say shit like that in corporate meetings.

Re:This is a very interesting development

[minus9]

Perhaps to mitigate these accusations Sun will claim the Chewbacca defense.

I'd just like to thank PG for another class A troll and special prizes to all the intellectual giants who, at the the present moment have elevated this gibberish to Score:5 Interesting.

Re:This is a very interesting development

[desmodromic]

Perhaps to mitigate these accusations Sun will claim the Chewbacca defense.

That does not make sense!

Re:Shares

[cshark]

SCO price as of this moment: $11.16.

Warrant price: $1.86.

Current profit: $9.3/share x 210,000 shares = $1,953,000.

Knowing SCO and their cronies will be crushed by IBM the minute this thing hits court: priceless

Stranger and stranger bedfellows

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm getting more and more of a picture of McNealy and Ballmer cooking this whole thing up over a beer.

Re:This is a very interesting development

[cyberformer]

Shit is right. If I said that in my corporate meeting, my boss would point out that Palpatine didn't really want to destroy Luke at all. He was manipulating Luke to destroy Vader and, in the process, succumb to the Dark Side and so replace Vader as Sith Lord.

Lawyers from Acme Associates?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it just me or does it seem more and more like SCO is Wyile E. Coyote (Sooper Genius!), and the Acme lawyers are strapping rollerskates and jet pack to him saying "don't worry this is all you'll need to catch that speedy little devil, IBM" ???

Re:Ransom Love and Blake Stowell

[HoppQ]

As someone pointed out, Darl McBride has claimed that SCO owns C++

That's nuts. Next SCO will claim ownership of the internet and sue Al Gore for inventing it.