SCO's Plan Examined

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 25, 2003 @06:03AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

kevin@ank.com writes "In the best expose I've read since the original Halloween documents, Groklaw has links and analysis of Renaissance Ventures' rationale for investing in The SCO Group. Among other misrepresentations, SCO convinced Ren that SCO owned the root of the entire UNIX tree, and that Linux was just one branch of that tree. Linux gets a SCO tax... forever; or worst case, if Linux gets killed in the process, then so be it. Renaissance also estimated that IBM would have settled with SCO last April under the strength of SCO's claims, and the threat of terminating their UNIX license. Oops."

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Reminds me of the Cartoon... by DaRat · 2003-09-25 06:08 · Score: 5, Funny

... where a couple of scientists are looking at a blackboard. The left and right sides have formulae. The center part says "Then a miracle happens".

One scientist says to the other, "that middle step seems a little fuzzy."

(Okay, that was paraphrased from memory, but the sentiment fits).
Re:Ren? by perdelucena · 2003-09-25 06:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Among other misrepresentations, SCO convinced Ren that SCO owned the root of the entire UNIX tree, and that Linux was just one branch of that tree.

And SCO said to Ren:

- All the base are belong to us

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Sco Sucks
Re:Everybody knows SCO's bussiness plan by flu1d · 2003-09-25 06:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Serious, as much fun as SCO is, is anybody else feeling their faith in humanity drain away, little by little, day by day, because of morals like these?

No, not all of humanity just corporate executives... but they're species has always been questionable anyway.
Re:Wonder if they used this? by yiantsbro · 2003-09-25 06:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Damn...that would make an interesting wall poster/conversation piece. I can see refering to it in a business planning meeting..."See this shit, this is what I have to deal with"
Due diligence? by smackjer · 2003-09-25 06:14 · Score: 5, Funny

You'd think that venture capitalists would have gotten smarter (and pickier) about where they throw their money. This sounds like giving the neighborhood bully some money so he can invest in a nice aluminum bat to make it easier to collect from the rest of the kids.

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just like the old days by Graspee_Leemoor · 2003-09-25 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny

I know people seem to be sick of reading SCO stories all the time, but I think it's exciting to be witnessing the unfolding of such an epic unix war.

It's just like the old days that I missed except now it involves linux and it's therefore even more exciting.

Maybe we should go back to the tactics of the old unix wars: We should catapult a plague-ridden cow into SCO's castle. Hmm. I think that's how it went.

graspe
Re:Unix vs. the Bible by frp001 · 2003-09-25 06:35 · Score: 5, Funny

> su -
Password:
# cat /dev/flood > /dev/earth
# rdev noah+beasts
# dd if=noah+beasts of=/dev/earth

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May I use your sig please?
Re:Wonder if they used this? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-25 07:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Everything else is SCO claiming they claim, without actually claiming it, and then relying on public perception to equate the actual claim with the claimed claims.

So what you're claiming is they are making claims without actually claiming any of the claims they're claiming to claim?

Therefore Linux is not only safe, it's safe.

But is it safe?