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SCO's Other Investor: Sun Microsystems

Posted by michael on from the investing-in-FUD dept.

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.

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  1. How is SCO's Lawsuit affecting sales of Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  2. Incredible hidden meaning!!!! by gregfortune · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.