SCO - What have WE Forgotten?

Ed Almos asks: "When trying to examine the SCO affair with a cold analytical eye I can't help but be worried. Over the last twelve months the SCO stock price has climbed from just over a dollar to nearly eighteen dollars and at its peak it was well over twenty dollars. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and if I had invested my life savings in SCO stock last Christmas I would now be a multi-millionaire, examining which speedboat to buy instead of which bills to pay. Even a six month analysis of the stock price shows steady growth from about ten dollars to seventeen, a strange situation for a company which is supposed to be on its last legs. For years I had a friend who worked in the petroleum industry as a deep sea diver. Deep sea diving is one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet and when you looked at Matt's desk the first thing you saw was a wooden sign asking 'what have I forgotten?' When you are three hundred feet down the last thing you want is to find out you have forgotten an important tool, it's bad news all round. Matt lived to a ripe old age so I suspect that the sign worked. We all need to ask the same question about the SCO affair, what have we forgotten?"

"Over the last eight months I have read countless posts on Slashdot regarding SCO and most if not all of the posts view the scene with rose-tinted spectacles. Promises are made that SCO will be buried and that McBride will find himself in prison, yet they are still there and McBride is still in charge. The men and women who play the stock market on a regular basis are no fools and something unknown to Slashdot readers made the SCO stock price rise by 2.4%, on December 26th, over half a days trading. If someone buys a stock they expect the price to rise, so what have WE forgotten that could be good news for SCO investors? The principle of 'many eyes' has been used by the Open Source movement before. Thousands of people examine source code, submit patches, and ensure that we give the best software we can to the community at large. Bugs are announced and fixed within hours and all of us know that this methodology provides a better solution than that offered by closed source products. We now need to apply the same methodology to the SCO problem, all of us need to consider what we know about this sorry affair and how we can legally contribute to the downfall of the SCO Group.

SCO have been ordered to produce their evidence against IBM by midnight on January 11th, 2004. This gives us [five days] to make sure that when the IBM lawyer marches into court he has a spring in his step, knowing that he has every Linux user on the planet behind him. THEN we can talk about SCO being buried, but not before.

Thank you for your time and a Happy New Year."

Comments

Thats a good job!

[AndyFewt]

"Deep dea diver"

yeh, when I grow up I want to dive into deep dea.

Haha...

[ryanvm]

if I had invested my life savings in SCO stock last Christmas I would now be a multi-millionaire

Haha - what a loser. I only missed out on the chance to be a multi-thousandaire.

Re:Bad analogy

[BoomerSooner]

How the hell do you hum Anthrax? I mean you must smoke 8 packs a day to get that kind of distortion on your hum.

My hat goes off to you, Anthrax hummer.

Re:This is nothing new

[spacecowboy420]

Ok, Michael will get away with it, but I am sure he is guilty.

Bryant, on the other hand, fucked a girl that came to his room. Now I know many arguments could be made that say that doesn't mean consent, but c'mon, a chick comes to your room - wtf does she want? Was she bringing fresh towels, food, any other consideration? No. What do you think her intentions were? The following week she was bragging at a party about the size of his dick. She's 19, and he's rich - sounds like a NBA groupie to me. Dude could get most any piece of ass he wanted - doesn't it sound more plausible she's looking for a payday?

Re:This is nothing new

[spacecowboy420]

Actually I am 32 with a daughter - I am also a realist. Instead of insults, why don't you refute any part of my post. Please, tell me where I am wrong, I gave facts (as they are reported), if they are true (we know you can't trust everything you read/hear) then I can't see how it could be seen any other way. If they aren't, then perhaps you could point out which ones and why.

(OT) Nice sig, but....

[rbird76]

the point of DRM isn't that your rights need management - it's that the people who hold the copyrights on the music/movies/software/data you use want your (legal) rights. DRM is about taking those rights by stealth - once they've taken them, they need to have them "managed" so that you can't take them back. Thieves need really good locks, after all, to protect them from their victims. DRM reverses the "theft" analogy - copyright infringers using music, etc. they haven't gotten permission to use are thieves but those who take the rights given by copyright law and who profit from the theft (who essentially stripmine public property and then sell both the products made from the land and the use of the land back to you) are just and righteous people.

This is probably the point you were making - I simply concurred with the spirit of your sig.

Re:This is nothing new

[rifter]

> > My position on the behavior of The SCO Group is that they're a bunch of lying fuckweasels who deserve nothing less than a forcible sodomization with a diamond-grit-encrusted Louisville Slugger wielded by SEC Chairman Bill Donaldson himself.
>
> You are being a little vague, could you draw me a picture?

No, but I know a website where there's this guy with about half of the picture... Fark Photoshop, anyone?

Hmm. I was thinking of goatse.cx. And curse your name for making me think of it, too! :)