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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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 :)

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: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