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SCO Claims $15,300,000 From SCOsource
Hollins writes "Yesterday, SCO filed their latest 10-Q. In it, they claim over fifteen million dollars in revenue from their SCOsource initiative (mostly from Microsoft and Sun) with a decline in revenue from all other sources. A lot of interesting statements are in the 10-Q, including "The success of our SCOsource licensing initiative, at least initially, will depend to a great extent on the perceived strength of our intellectual property and contractual claims and our willingness to enforce our rights. Many, particularly those in the open source community, dispute the allegations of infringement that we have made"."
10 Q Darl McBrides IQ anyone?
stolen SCO email:
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Darl,
How do these numbers look? I spent 4 hours pulling them out of my ass.
-Chris
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Chris,
That total looks great! Redo it without all the details
then put it on the wires; I have a payment due on my
Mercedes this Thursday.
-Darl
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Trolling is a art,
Cooking the books is bad, m'kay?
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
So..... SCO goodwill anyone? C'mon, who's hiding all the SCO goodwill? Bill, what's that you are hiding behind your back there? Why do you have lots of goodwill towards SCO, Bill?
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
You just need the right business model, I guess!
Everyone should NOT pay SCO. If nobody pays them, they go out of business. They have no money left.
This is my sig.
Wow, so scosource.com made $15M. That's not bad for a website that claims to be non-commercial!
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
> Meaning that SCOSource received no revenue whatsoever outside of those two. Hopefully it'll stay that way after they start sending invoices out.
Invoice? I thought they had sent me some commemorative toilet paper!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Drivers license
Picture of Melinda and children
Weekly allowance in the amount of $15.3 million
This effort resulted in the execution of two license agreements during the April 30, 2003 quarter. [...] The Sun and Microsoft license agreements are non-exclusive, perpetual, paid up licenses to utilize the UNIX source code.
On July 31, 2003, Microsoft exercised an option to acquire expanded licensing rights. Upon delivery, we expect to recognize additional revenue related to this option.
On January 1, 2004, Microsoft lost its license somewhere in a heap of refunded Windows-95 boxes. Instead of trying to find the needle in the stack of hay, Microsoft exercised an option to buy the license once again.
are the number of reader posts to these slashdot SCO stories beginning to really decline?
This court case contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties often indicated by such words as "owns," "all code," "100s and thousands," "main()," "greek letters," "extor^H^H^H^H" and similar expressions. The actual truths differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth below under "The real truth" and "Prior-art" and omitted elsewhere in this quarterly filing.
Desi Noise, Live!
Well of course getting people to pay you mmoney for liquid will get you behind bars, how the fuck else are you going to serve them?
I don't believe it unless I read it by myself, repeatedly!
Time to fire up my favourite browser wget.
while [ true ] ; do wget -r -nd --delete-after http://www.sco.com/ ; done
looks like you took the bait
"I don't wait with baited breath about a hardware..."
:)
Didn't we just go over this... it's bated breath.
Are you sure?
Maybe he *likes* raw herring....
Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.
Clarification: It's like a strip tease in that they never show what they promise to.
Every time you reboot Linux, SCO kills a kitten.
Unless you've paid your $699 fee, that is. Please think of the kittens.
"The success of our SCOsource licensing initiative, at least initially, will depend to a great extent on the perceived strength of our intellectual property and contractual claims and our willingness to enforce our rights."
S = Success
X = Perceived strength of IP = 0
Y = Perceived strength of contractual claims = 0
S = X*Y*Z
Let Z = SCO's willingness to enforce its "rights."
B) Anyone who receives one of those invoices might try to challenge SCO's copyrights. Given that the presiding judge ruled ATT was "unlikely" to prevail on their copyright claims in the BSD case, SCO does not want to put their copyrights to the test in court.
I keep pointing this one out, and being told I'm an idiot in various ways, but the fact of the matter is that UNIX code has already been judicially reviewed and the result of that review suggests that SCO's magic bag of intellectual property is, and always was, empty.
That's why the only "trick" they've managed to pull out of it so far is a cheap and tawdry contractual disagreement.
Even that one is bogus and unimplemented in the vast majority of actual installs.
It's less a dog and pony show than a strip tease. And I really *don't* want to imagine Darl naked.
"Haah. Ah'm SCO. This is my brother Darl and this is my other brother Darl. We're the McIdiots. Would you lahk us to strip fer yew?"
"No? How about we eat a dead rat, or business plan, or OS, or somethin'?"
"Okey-dokey. Just give us yer money then."
KFG
Follow the instructions in this chain letter EXACTLY, or HORRIBLE things will happen to you! Mr. L. Penguin threw away this letter, and was sentenced to five years in a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison for UNIX(c) patent infringement. Meanwhile, B. Gates followed the instructions to the letter, and made a million dollar gain in the stock market the very next day!
Step 1: Send $660 to the first name on this list.
Step 2: Move the first name on the list to the third position on the list, and move the other names up one place.
Step 3: Do NOT put your own name on the list, or you too will be sent to a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison.
Step 4: Pass this letter on to all your friends who use Linux.
Name #1
Darl McBride
The SCO Group
355 South 520 West
Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042
Name #2
Darrell McBride
The Santa Cruz Operation
355 South 520 West
Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042
Name #3
The Darlmeister
SCO SCO KaChoo
355 South 520 West
Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042
P.S. THIS IS 100% LEGAL UNLESS SOME STUPID JUDGE STOPS US, AND EVEN IF THEY DO WE'VE ALREADY DUMPED OUR STOCK!
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
I though my check for my license bounced!
Maybe 'cause it drew on my empty account due to the RIAA lawsuit......
Self Defense - A Human Right www.a-human-right.com
# man woman
No manual entry for woman
Curious....
INSERT INTO comment VALUE('Doh!') WHERE user='you';
Because that would involve admitting to having a lot more linux installations than they could pass of as having to "study its weaknesses"... unless they were looking for a Beuwolf cluster of weaknesses
You have used "Mc" in your post.
This is a violation of our Trademark.
Our McLawyers will be contacting you shortly.
McDonalds.
Over 1000000 Sued!
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
Don't count on it. Darl needs revenue from SCOSource for each of the next two quarters if he wants to get the big bonus. He'll find someone to keep them afloat, might be MS, might be someone else with an axe to grind wrt Linux.
But after Darl gets that bonus? Yeah, zero.
print "We (SCO) demand " &
(int(1001)*rnd*100000) & "$ from " &
RandomSueList(int(101)*rnd) & " because " & RandomReasonList(int(101)*rnd)
Be Warned: This source code is property of SCO, if you use it, you will be added to the RandomSueList
Time is the only precious thing I've got left; Don't waste it