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SCO Approaches Google About Linux Licenses
MSBob writes "Seems that SCO is seriously hinting that their next victim is going to be Google. SCO said that they held what SCO described as "low level talks" with Google executives with regards to licensing SCO's alleged intellectual property within the Linux kernel. The full article is on Forbes.com." The Reuters story is on Yahoo!, too.
They're going after Google now because of Google's planned IPO. IE "Pay us off or we'll raise a stink and scare your investors." Pathetic.
what SCOX faield to mention is the fact that Google execs in fact rejected SCOX's claims..
The reason you have not heard he rebuttle from Goolge is because of the upcoming quite period per IPO rules..
SCOX stock is about to hit the bottom in less than 20 days
you doubt this? take a look at the difference between the bid and ask.. when that spread gets biug it menas that theere are shorts and puts drivng theprice anot real value..once the judgement against SCOX is made in januaury those players wil have no where to go with their stock..
Don't Tread on OpenSource
How will this hurt Google's IPO? All they need to do is make a press release saying they are not going to pay SCO anything and that they'll switch to BSD if SCO actually wins their case against IBM. The latter being highly unlikely of course.
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Why is the parent modded as troll? Hopefully meta-mods catch this one.
Parent describes a perfectly credible tactic SCO might use: sign nominal but paltry deals with high-profile Linux user(s) and then bleat to the press about it (without disclosing the paltry terms). It would fit in perfectly with their modus operandi so far, eg remember how last year they had signed Unix licencing deals with 2 companies? One disclosed as Microsoft, the other undisclosed (believed to have been Sun).
Anyway, bad mods..
I use Friend/Foe + mod-point modifiers as a karma/reputation system.
Couldn't Google just erase all web presence of SCO at this point...And they might just toss some weight around with the other search engines too...Perhaps the tech press should stop front page reporting of all SCO based news...
The Windows NT kernel upon which XP is based dates back to a early/mid-1980s collaboration with IBM.
uh, no. NT is actually VMS at its core. IBM had absolutly nothing to do with NT.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Novell has filed copyrights on the same code as SCO has (and a little more). There isn't a judge on the planet who would let SCO proceed until the competing copyrights are settled.
Also, Google's CEO used to work at Novell. Do you think, maybe, possibly, he still has some contacts there?
Basically, there's an SEC rule that says companies with over a certain number of shareholders have to act like public companies, and file disclosures (10Ks, 10Qs, etc.) Essentially, they're going to be forced to act like a public company (which is expensive - think of all that paper that has to go out), without having the benefit of raising new money. Google has three choices in this event:
1. Reduce the number of shareholders so they're not subject to the rule.
2. Live with it (ie, pay more, and be subject to more regulation, without the benefits of an IPO.)
3. Go ahead and go public, and get new money for their trouble, plus allowing investors to cash out at some future date.
Given the current market and Google's dominance in the search engine field, #3 doesn't sound like a half-bad choice.
No. Google is pre-IPO. The normal reaction for an american company under the circumstances is "always settle so that the IPO goes through".
All I can say is that I hope that SCO has forgotten that Google is not by any means an average US company. If it was, it would have long gone belly up.
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
http://www.sigsegv.cx/
"Is it just me or is SCO going out of their mind? This is getting insane."
Of all the things they've ever lost they miss their minds the most -- maybe.
As an aside, Google is a client of RedHat. I wonder how thats gonna play out in front of the judge in the RedHat v SCO trial. Should be rather interesting to see...
Well, I run SCO countdown.com (see link in my sig) and I just wanted to remind everyone that the 90 day deadline SCO imposed on itself to sue a linux user is coming up. The deadline comes up February 17, so SCO better start unloading some serious lawyer firepower...
Google intially used Red Hat before converting to a house distribution.
Well, the directory's aren't actually made by Google. They use the Open Directory Project.
Google is a customer of redhat. Presently, scox is trying to get redhat's case against scox dismissed, on the ground that scox isn't doing anything to hurt redhat's customers.
Also, I think the CEO of Google is an ex-novell exec, just like the present CEO of scox. In fact, I think they were both at novell at the same time.
Pardon? Darwin is opensource, and contains the BSD source you allege they "closed off." In addition, Apple has given back to numerous other opensource projects, including KHTML (the rendering engine for the now-default Safari browser).
I hope you're hitting the Help us improve link at the bottom.
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