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SCO posts Q2 Loss, Gets $11k from Linux
Paul Hands sent us linkage to SCOs Q2 Financials. "The highlights are that SCOX only collected $11k (yes, K) for that much-discussed license for EV1 and other Licensees. Cost of that $11k was well over $4M.
Overall, revenue was just over $10M, and they made a net loss applicable to common stockholders of $14,959,000, or $1.06 per diluted common share." Update According to the SCO conference call, this isn't accurate.. their Linux extortion income will be listed in the Q3 financials.
<quote> a charge of $2,139,000 related to the impairment of goodwill and intangible assets </qoute>
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
Yosemite Darl is the meanest, toughest, rootin-est,tootin-est cowboy there ever was and you should be ashamed of yourself for rustlin' away his code, pardner. Why its getting so a man can't earn a dishonest livin no more.
... "I can't get a long little dogey, I can't even get one that's small, I can't get a long little dogey, I can't get a dogey at all". (Profuse apologies to Yosemite Sam)
Now let's all sing with Darl (while reading the SCO finances)
What's next? CNET gets a "Cease & Desist" letter from SCO because the company's name was used in this story?
Hmmm.
It should not take too many more quarters like this to put an end to this nonsense.
Darl's going to turn around and claim that this is proof that the Linux Business models don't work.
SCOwned.
If SCO is having Q2 losses, maybe they should upgrade to Quake 3, or at least get a new videocard.
--Kevin
AH HAHAHAHAHAHHA
With all the recent news (mostly covered by Groklaw) about what is going AGAINST SCO, I would REALLY REALLY like to see what they have going FOR them. Why would peopel invest in a company who seems to be determined to implode on themselves.
So far everything I've seen says they don't have a hair to stand on in their case against IBM, DO they have anything?
Time to start up the SCO dead pool. What date do you predict that they will run out of money and implode?
Where's my lobbyist? Right here.
"Expenses associated with our SCOsource division are anticipated to continue at approximately the current level as we continue to protect our UNIX intellectual property and aggressively pursue our legal claims through the court system."
Ohhhh boy. Better get comfortable people, there's going to be yet more SCO stories for a while.
Stuff.
Link to the realease on the SCO's site
From SCO Keeps SinkingThu Motley Fool
"Management blamed the slow sales on a "lack of SCOsource licensing revenue." SCOsource is the Linux users' shakedown program. Apparently, no one is paying up. It took in $11,000 last quarter. That's not a typo. President and CEO Darl McBride paid more lip service to "increasing shareholder value," but you really have to wonder about the viability of his vision when his firm's most engrossing initiative brings in less money than the guys who mow lawns in my neighborhood."
rofl :)
I mean, this post might be modded funny, but I swear, I didn't make it up. It's right out of the article.
"Our revenue for the second quarter was consistent with our expectation and we also incurred significant expenses for the impairment of goodwill and intangibles and for the exchange of our Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock. Both of these charges negatively impacted our second quarter results," said Darl McBride, President and CEO. "As the company looks forward to the last two quarters of fiscal year 2004 we are committed to increasing shareholder value through profitable operations and increasing cash flow from our UNIX division as well as remaining focused on our intellectual property lawsuits and licensing strategies."
Sometimes you don't even have to try to make a funny post, because the dialogue you'd put in Darl's mouth is actually less funny than his own idiotic ramblings.
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What, and lose all that comic relief?
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From a similar article
"A legal victory looks highly unlikely, and even if a decision went SCO's way, the probable remedy would not be money for SCO, but a rewrite for Linux, something the open-source community would accomplish in the blink of an eye."
The listing appears to be part of an effort by domestic and foreign brokers to circumvent recent National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) restrictions against so called "naked short selling." Naked short selling involves groups of people working together to manipulate the market by selling fictitious shares of stock in an effort to force a company's share price to go down. Not that I care.
By listing the Company's common stock on the Exchange, market manipulators sought to benefit from an "arbitrage" loophole that none of the present regulations was designed to close.
...at this rate, they won't have any quarters left for the slot machines.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Wow, at $699 a go, they managed to license 15 copies!
Go SCO!
John.
In any case the ploy was a success - the goal was never to increase SCO revenue, but to bolster the stock price so execs could sell. The issue now is whether this will be investigated as a pump-and-dump scam that Darl and co knew from the outset had no basis in law. Don't scoff Darl - you still may end up in the cell block with Worldcom and Enron execs.
Maybe we should ask him...
Bill, what do you think?
They'll get infusions of money from anti-FOSS interests until they lose in court and all their appeals have been exhausted.
Hope Darryl clarified on this during their 11am EDT conference today.
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And then there was much rejoicing...yeah!
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During the conference call earlier in the day, SCO stated that the EV1 revenue was not included in this quarter, and will start showing up in Q3.
Is it just me or is it amusing that the story says "$11k (yes, K)"? That's "Eleven thousand dollars (yes, Kelvin)".
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
If they had done something positive, like using their expertise in UNIX internals to offer device driver development for third party hardware, rather than destructive legal disputes, they would probably have made a much better profit.
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Remember, these aren't techies talking about the technical merits of the case. These are financial guys commenting about SCO's quality as an investment. It nice to see someone other than technical folk scoffing at this sideshow.
===== Murphy's Law is recursive. =====
When SCO's a worthless company, and they already are in my eyes, I'll shell out the $10 and buy 'em out. First thing I'll do is I'll move Darl's desk into the basement and change his title "GPL Promotion Assistant". If he's got a stapler... yeah... I'll just be taking that from him too...
How handy that he has a toll free number!
It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.
For example, I have some company that has the potential to make sick amounts of money I just don't have the capital to make that happen. So you invest money, then more money till your out. You don't want to loose your investment so you get some other people to take a financial interest in your financial interest.
I once worked for a Machine Shop, the owner was the world's WORST business man but people kept giving him money. I guess once you've kicked in 1 million dollars you don't want to loose it so you kick in more, and get others to kick in more. You just hope that some day it pays off. (ahem- suckers)Lucky for me I was just an employee, not the terrible owner or the sucker investors.
I boycott signatures
Won't be necessary. SCO is a corporation, which means its officers are protected from legal action stemming from the behavior of the company..
IANAL.
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On that note, I can certainly see why SCO took the gamble it did. The company was going to be bankrupt soon and realized that it had just a very small chance of winning any Linux suit. So if they didn't sue, they would be bankrupt for sure in 2-3 years. If they DID file suit, they at least had a chance they would win (albeit small) and save themselves from bankrupcy.... Under this view of things, they actually didn't take ANY risk since it was inevitable they would have gone under if they hadn't filed suit... Just something to think about (though I still think SCO is SCum)
From the conference call, it seems that the EV1 revenue won't start coming in until Q3. They still say it's in the "6 figures," but less than $250K and will be spread over several quarters.
-- Don't Tase me, bro!
Comprehensive list of anti-FOSS interests:
1. Microsoft
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What is needed is either a lengthy prison term for Darl and a dozen other people at the helm, or an apology for unfair punishment to all the virus writers and pirates, to speak nothing of simple curious, computer-literate individuals. Recently, US justice system claimed worms cause billions of dollars in financial damage and a single song on Kazaa is worth tens of K. Well, they should really jump on this one - a rogue causing countless companies to waste money on laywers or pay for unwanted MS software.
I think they'd be better off if they fired all their lawyers and put the rest of their money into lotto tickets.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Ok here is the Bittorrent of the SCO Conference Call today in mp3 format.
http://sco.penguinman.comWhat you mean to say is, you have Google:
Results for the 1 Darl McBride in Utah:
I seem to remember once reading that a few yeard ago Darl was the CEO of a company that sued IBM over intellectual property rights. The article stated that on that occasion IBM bought out the company and Darl received a big payout from the shareholders.
Some people say that SCO are only attacking IBM this time in an attempt to be bought out. In fact I just found this, an open statement by Darl that he would welcome IBM buying SCO to make the problem go away: SCO's CEO says buyout could end Linux fight. I think that settles it. SCO doesn't want to win in court they don't even want to go to court, they just want to scare IBM into buying them out.
99 bottles of beer in 175 characte
The stock has been around $5 ± 0.50 for weeks. You can't short a NASDAQ listed stock when the price is below $5, so the bears drop out at that point. Trading volume has been down for weeks. SCO's concern with being listed on some additional exchanges may be that they have different rules on short positions, allowing shorting at lower price points.
The full numbers from this quarter aren't out yet, so it's hard to figure out when they run out of cash. It looks like they have three to six quarters of cash left at their current burn rate, but that's a rough estimate. Unless they get new financing, it looks like they won't make it to the IBM trial date in 2005.
At this point, the remaining stockholders who think SCO has a case against IBM might well ask why SCO wants additional delay. SCO can't afford much more delay.
"You-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept."
This is SCO we're talking about, they can make anything up!
would be too much to hope/pray for?
as much as i'd like to see them go bankrupt, i'd much rather see the snot beat out of them by Big Blue in court first. i think it would be slower and more painful for them that way. not to mention more fun to watch.
Slackware
October 2003, stock hovers at a high of $22.
Now, stock is at $4 and from the looks of things could easily drop back down to $2.
Hype over. The put up or shut up phase where people assumed they had a case is over. They must have known there was a point where the stock price couldn't be inflated any more by innuendo and "maybe sorta" proof, so I'm wondering why they'd continue down this path?
-- The unsig...
Here is a link that made me laugh..
This morning, however, McBride had to face the music with shareholders during the Unix vendor's quarterly earnings call, where he reported sharply reduced earnings and sparse revenue from its licensing business.
McBride put the blame squarely on his rivals for raising doubts in the minds of potential licensees about the legitimacy of SCO's ownership of System V Unix. SCO alleges that IBM illegally contributed Unix code to the Linux kernel and has levied a $5 billion suit against Big Blue.
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
I am very happy to read that SCO has made such a large net loss. This is not because support for Linux as much as it is because I do not support the type of business practice employed by SCO.
I strongly believe that companies have a duty not only to their owners, but also to their customers, suppliers, and even to their competitors. The last one, the duty to competitors, is a duty to compete based on a better products and services, better marketing, better pricing, a better overall customer experience, etc.
I think that, while litigation is sometimes necessary, most issues can be settled outside of the court system in a mutually beneficial way, or at least in a way that minimizes the damages to all parties involved. Further, litigation and other legal actions (lobbying for legislation, etc.) should not be employed as a source of profit for a company, but only to solve legitimate problems.
In the case of SCO, I think they have thrown all good business practices out the window, while embracing litigation as a potential source of profit. Essentially, instead of elevating themselves by making sound decisions and consistently improving themselves, they are trying to become elevated by pushing others down. Kind of like the "everything is relative" argument - if you push someone down, then you could say that you have elevated yourself even though you stayed in the same place. This is what SCO is trying to do, and it is not beneficial to anybody except, if they manage to pull it off, themselves. This is a very egoistic and self centered company with no desire to make anything of value. And companies like this should not be supported.
For those reasons, I am glad that SCO had these losses, and I hope that investors pull their investments, new investors don't buy SCO stock, and potential customers go elsewhere. This evil company should not be supported by anybody.
Not to mention that I strongly believe that there is no legal issue of any SCO code being copied into other software. In fact, I believe quite the opposite: Either:
Tell that to the ex-Enron offiers.
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They were still extremely shifty as to how much exactly that deal is worth. Darl spouts off a claim that it's still 6-figures, but less than 250k. Didn't EV1 already deny that the amount was 6 figures? Maybe Darl's including decimal places.
The execs are still responsible to their shareholders. The safe harbor provisions of securities law don't cover fraud. Darl and Co should buy mansions in Florida whicb has solid domicile protection in bankruptcy proceedings (you almost always keep the house regardless of cost). Which is why so many Tyco and Enron execs bought $10 million and up homes there just before the final hammer fell. Also, other debtors can attempt to go after corporate equity holders in cases of criminal circumstances, and depending on the laws in the state in which SCO is incorporated.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
I'd just like to give a big Thank-You to SCO for scaring the bejesus out of any other company who might try this line of attack again, and for helping keep Linux in the news.
** Thank You, SCO!!! **
Linux users in the future will be able to take pride in your accomplishments in making businesses lose their fear of some company trying to do what you did and costing them money, while at the same time pushing awareness of Linux as a real alternative to proprietary products and companies which pursue legal whims like this.
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
Darn! I was hoping the the URL pointed to the litigious bastards' own web site. That way when the /. effect hit, they could accuse us Linux freaks of another DOS attack.
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I thought that they were already delisted, and only noticeable through a specific lookup.
They're not in the newspaper stocks listings...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
sco.penguinman.com
To find the $11K number, you have to dig down into the numbers below. Lining things up on Slashdot is very difficult, so I'll just paste the relevant line:
That's telling you they made $11k in the prior three months, and $31K in the prior six months, as compared to $8250 last year. In 2003, it would appear, they made all their money in Q2, 8.25 million.These are fiancial guys Joe Sixpack listens to. Mainstream all the way baby.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
This brings a whole new light to the scale of EV1Servers.net ..
No, since EV1 isn't included in these numbers, it doesn't bring a new light -- except as mentioned in the tele-conference; the EV1 deal is less than $250,000.
" it turns out that EVERY SINGLE company listed on NASDAQ is traded on the 'unofficial regulated market' at Berlin-Bremen.
Note that Darl, during the call, said that these were "unregulated" markets, which is clearly not the case."
"About Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchange: Like all other German exchanges the Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchange is separated in three market segments: Official Market; Regulated Market and Unofficial Regulated Market. Special significance is attributed to the Unofficial Regulated Market at the Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchange. With more than 8,000 national and international companies admitted the Unofficial Regulated Market unparalleled -- both in terms of size and diversity. .. All companies listed on the NASDAQ, NYSE, and several OTCBB companies are listed on the Unofficial Regulated Market of the Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchange, giving investors the largest choice of American stocks in Europe."
Help fight continental drift.
As much as I have enjoyed watching this slow-motion train wreck, I am starting to wonder what will happen to the actual Unix rights SCO has, presuming that they will need to sell everything at some point to pay off their creditors.
Though I have to imagine the government couldn't *possibly* agree to this, can you imagine them selling the rights to Microsoft? Because of all the insanity this company has been willing to wallow in, I can't, for one, imagine them selling the rights to some benevolant organization; I'd think they'd rather do something to screw Linux over "just one more time".
Looks better in a graph. :)
I am a speak english. Do you not? - Saroto
SCO is not like m$. Every few days they have a new exciting story' some believable and some not, but what will we do when they're gone? I shudder at losing my sole internet entertainment and so far, you readers have been very stingy with your money. SCO has come up with a lot of ideas for emergency funding, but none seem to be working well.
What can we do? Well, I have a plan. It's called "SOSco" for "Save our SCO". Shortly, I will be starting up a small company to help provide "stay alive" funding for SCO, at least until their court case. Except for my salaries and actual overhead expenses, the remainder will all go to SCO. With nearly 100,000, /. readers and just a few dollars each (we will accept non USA currency also) I think we can keep things going for one or two more years. That's a small price for this kind of entertainment. Oh, I forgot! I will have to put aside enough funds for a good lawyer team just in case someone tries to sue us for using SOS (since it may have other meaning)and most likely from SCO themselves for using a derivitive of their name without their permission. Be watching daily, because this will be an exclusive story on /. as my company will depend on you readers for it's major funding.
Thanks,from the team as SOSco
lcsjk
DOn't tell me that *foreign brokers* are evading SEC rules *which don't apply to them* by *trading in their own countries*! What fiends!
Now, if we can only link them to terrorists, we can torture them.
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All the while this CEO got paid a huge salary:
Management blamed the slow sales on a "lack of SCOsource licensing revenue." SCOsource is the Linux users' shakedown program. Apparently, no one is paying up. It took in $11,000 last quarter. That's not a typo. President and CEO Darl McBride paid more lip service to "increasing shareholder value," but you really have to wonder about the viability of his vision when his firm's most engrossing initiative brings in less money than the guys who mow lawns in my neighborhood. By the way, McBride was paid more than $1 million last year -- most of it in cash -- to preside over this impending disaster.
It really is sickening. And there seems to be no hope in sight for regulatory reform in this area, when public companies can perform goofy shit like this with impunity.
It's rumoured that BlueStar made the same point to SCO. I think they were right. SCO's conventional business should be in "harvest" mode right now.
Does anyone know of a reason that SCO should be investing money in R&D?
Maybe, but it hasn't exactly been positive news. People who didn't know much about Linux and heard about this whole SCO debacle are probably even LESS likely to want to switch over now.
Agreed. When this whole damn thing was at it's hottest, I saw Darl McBride on CNN actually mentioning Linux together with - I'm pretty sure - the words 'cyber terrorism'. All of this makes for a really bad combination for the average Joe and Jane User.
zWhat would an EWOULDBLOCK block, if an EWOULDBLOCK could block would? -- me
Goodwill is a term of art in accounting. There's a brief summary on Wikipedia. Essentially, "goodwill" is the magic dark matter of accounting that is used to explain whither otherwise inexplicable money goes and whence it comes. For instance, say one of your company's buildings appraised for $1 million but somebody else bought it for $2 million. That goes down as $1 million of "goodwill" so that the numbers balance out. Conversely, if someone else's building appraised for $2 million but he sold it to you for $1 million, that's another example of $1 million of goodwill on your books.
Hint relevant to this situation: it applies to securities as well.
All's true that is mistrusted
http://biz.yahoo.com/fool/040610/1086881820_2.html
A very entertaining read.
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
Shares Outstanding: 14.42M
Float: 7.80M
Shares Short (as of 10-May-04): 4.62M
Short % of Float (as of 10-May-04): 59.27%
Shares Short (prior month): 3.95M
Bwa hah hah! What a ridiculously mismanaged company.
I'd say it was headed for 0.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
If you buy their UNIX or Linux Product later on down the road they will read something in a license agreement and file suit against you like they did with IBM, Autozone and Chrysler. Their legal actions are similar to Ford Motor company suing people that buy their SUV's for painting their cars or repairing a tail light. Business by litigation is always bad for corporations that need customers to buy their product to survive.
People are making money with free software, get over it. Investors are all doing as well or better than greedheads who have lost half of their money listenting to the greedheads at Microsoft. Anyone who put money into the SCO extortion plan deserves to lose every penny and will.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I read here that SCO was seeking a 5 month trial delay. That makes sense to me. If my buddies and I were pulling down tons of cash, and salaried no less, by coming up with stupid ideas, like extorting money from big corporations, then I would want to keep drawing my salary as long as possible. Especially if our stupid extortion scheme was only pulling down about $11,000 every three months.
Astronauts in weightlessness of pixilated space, exchange graffiti with a disembodied race. - Rush
Apparently BayStar wanted SCO to get out of the Unix business and into the lawsuit business. But what if they did the opposite? What if they stopped forking money over to lawyers and concentrated on developing and selling Unix? They still had 10M in revenue from this quarter. They only spent 1.9M to make that revenue plus another 2.8M in R&D. That's a potential operating profit of 5.3M. There are many small businesses that would be glad to make 5.3M every quarter. The IP-licensing side of their business with all their lawsuits cost SCO 4.4M (see the line about Cost of SCOsource licensing revenue) and only paid back 11K. I think you can see where the money is hemorrhaging.
I was never a SCO Unix user, but I understand it was (at one time) a repectable unix back in the day and I don't see why it can't be again with a quarterly R&D bugdet of 2.8M. If I was a serious shareholder (not a speculator) interested in growing the business, I would want to know why they don't stop wasting money on this longshot lawsuit crapshoot and start concentrating on what they themselves describe as their "core" business.
I'd gladly pay Darl $20 to mow my lawn.
You'd better not - I'm sure as soon as you did, he'd put up no trespassing signs on your yard, and demand $699 for you to leave your house.
Can someone please confirm that this is the Darl McBride of SCO (what is the first letter of Darl's middle name, for starters)? For more than one reason, I believe that if it really were him, he wouldn't have his number listed (remember, the guy hires an ontourage of body guards to protect him against 'militant linux extremists' whenever he leaves his little enclave). If slashdot readers ruthlessly prank this number without confirming who it is they are really calling, its likely to backfire when open source supporters are portrayed as unjust lunatics.
And if they guy isn't the Darl Mcbride, hasn't he suffered enough already by sharing the same name?
Most of the rights to SYSV belong to Novell, not SCO. From a Linux point of view, nobody has shown any infringing code, but some variants of Unix really ARE based on SYSV and the ownership of code might matter. I doubt that even Novell can actually prove ownership of everything in SYSV or clearly define their rights in a way that would hold up in court. Therefore they collect revenue in some areas where their rights are not disputed, using SCO as a sort of collection agent.
There is a theory out there stating that Sun's attempt to open source Solaris is just a ruse, so as to pump up whatever is left of SCO's credibility.
Sun: "We are going to GPL Solaris".
SCO: "No you can't, we own Unix and the license you bought from us does not allow you to GPL Solaris".
Sun: "Oh, that's right. You own Unix, and that's why we paid for a license. Silly us."
If IBM somehow becomes the owner of SCO's IP (whatever that may prove to be), they could possibly remove the SCO "obstacle" to Solaris/GPL and therefore call Sun's bluff. In that case, Sun would just make some other excuse for declining to GPL Solaris (probably blaming Novell). It would be fun to watch, but not quite so much fun as seeing the "For Sale or Lease" sign at SCO headquarters or Darl's resume on monster.com.
This sure smells like the minority owners (Canopy) are bleeding cash out of a publicly-traded company (SCO) by selling it a loser.
Canopy has done stuff like this before. When one of their companies goes bankrupt, they (Canopy) wind up with the assets that matter, whether or not the company was publicly traded. They do this by making sure that the company that is going under owes Canopy money, so that Canopy is a creditor at bankruptcy time.
In other words:
1. Create a private company (company A).
2. Take company A public. Company A now has lots of money.
3. Create another private company (company B).
4. Sell company B to company A.
5. Profit!
But wait, there's more...
6. Make sure company A owes you money.
7. Let company A go bankrupt.
8. Using the assets that you get back from the bankruptcy, go to step 1!
I don't know if anyone has posted this before, but there is a great quote from this article on MSNBC that I had to share:
"The GPL has this sucking effect of grabbing your IP [intellectual property], sucking it in and destroying your property rights," McBride said.
Torvalds, the Linux founder, ridicules that notion.
"Having a hole in your head has this sucking effect," Torvalds said, firing back at McBride. "The GPL doesn't 'grab' any IP at all. The only thing that is desperately trying to grab other people's IP is Darl McBride and company."
Go Linus!
So far, he has had one profitable quarter in a row.
Last year.
When SUN/Microsft bought "licenses".
Bad Darl! No bonus!
Acts of massive stupidity are almost never covered by warranty. --me.
That's "Hurd of GNUs", you moron.
Exceeding the recommended torque is not recommended.
Though to confirm another followup post, Darl's middle initial is indeed C.
Dyolf Knip
SCO's been saying that Linux is so powerful and advanced that it destroyed the market for Unix. Those who understand the situation realize that when SCO says "Unix" they mean their own pathetic products - most IT professionals would think of Solaris, HPUX and AIX. And Linux is not really ready to displace those at the high end.
But to the general public/financial community SCO has sent a loud and clear message that Linux has crushed Unix. It almost makes me wonder if IBM arranged the whole thing.
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX&d=c&k=c1&c=IB M&a=v&p=s&t=1y&l=off&z=m&q =l
Right now it shows they've lost about 50% of their value relative to IBM over the last year. It also shows how volatile the SCO price is relative to IBM's stability. Since the lawsuit started more than a year ago, the one-year view doesn't really capture the entire story, and on the two-year view (one click away) you can see that SCO still has to fall some more to get all the way back to where they were before they started this circus. But only a little more. They're almost there.
Current price is $4.89, but I think they may get into the three dollar range next week.
A lot of this discussion involved the value of goodwill, but SCO should be more concerned about the Goodwill store. They'll need to buy "new" shirts after losing the ones they have now.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
.., slightly offtopic but here goes.
SCO vs APPLE Stock
Have a chuckle and then get back to the real world(work).
"Why, Johnny Ringo. You look like somebody just walked over your grave." Doc Holliday, Tombstone.