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BayStar Sets Lawyers on SCO
myster0n writes "According to The Register: 'SCO's attempts to rescue its relationship with BayStar, its biggest backer, have come to naught. On Friday morning, Eastern time, SCO announced that the stock buyback deal it agreed with the unhappy investor had closed. Two hours and five minutes later, Baystar issued a statement saying that a) no it hadn't and b) we'll see you in court, matey.'" Thanks to The Reg for the write-up.
"Ha ha!" (Nelson)
so it should be "we'll see you in court, eh."
is the following paragraph:
'SCO maintains that it has been a paragon of virtue and transparency throughout, and that everything it said publicly and privately is true. But, and this should come as no surprise, it won't had over the documents BayStar wants to see. It says this is to "protect the confidential and proprietary nature of the information" and to "avoid fostering speculation regardng its SCOsource business".'
Darl: Paragon of Virtue, Lifter of the Downtrodden, Scooper of the Pooper - He needs an action figure!!!!
The five minutes to draft their response, I can understand. What was the two hours for? Laughter, rage, a few more holes of golf?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
SCO??? Going to court? Impossible! That never happens.... go buy your lottery tickets today!
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It takes a big man to cry, it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
Jack Handey
Trolling is a art,
I can't think of one offhand, even Microsoft by implication is their enemy, (if a friend of a friend is now an enemy of your friend, they are your enemy too, no?), congrats SCO you're probably now one of the most loathed companies in America. Lower than Microsoft, lower than Diebold, lower than the Nigerian Asset Transfer consortium that always wants my money, you get the picture...
...in bed
This article is missing the foot icon, as it was the first one today that made me laugh.
"So does SCO even have any friends now?"
Of course they do:
1. Microsoft.
2. Sun.
3. Satan.
Microsoft and Sun have invested in SCO's efforts via licenses, so it's unlikely they'll ever sue SCO.
Satan, on the otherhand, is a lawyer. They really don't want to piss him off. With SCO's track record, I suspect it's only a matter of time though.
"You two, fight to the death." -- Stewie
is a distant echo of a toilet flush and the water swirling around the drain...
of the Register you're seeing. :-D
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
Bwaaaaaa haaaaaa haaaa haaa haaaa
I love the smell of corporate litigation in the morning.
I wonder what the epitaph will read?
Here lies SCO
I wonder why
They had to hire
that bastard guy.
A note to all
who pass them by
Their last words
"Why did we even try...."
INSERT INTO comment VALUE('Doh!') WHERE user='you';
We Canadians say "about". It's Americans who say "abaht"
What is the robbing of a bank, compared to the founding of a bank? -- Bertolt Brecht
"Julian, what the fuck is all this Starbay and stuff about? Sounds fuckin stupid to me."
...
"Don't worry about it Ricky, it has to do with the Internet."
"The what?"
"The Internet, Ricky. You know, the Internet?"
"Where the FUCK is Corey and Trevor? I told those fuckin idiots to be back here an hour ago. My fuckin weed plants need to be guarded and the cats have all run away. Fuckin idiots."
"Ahh fuck, here comes Lahey. Who the FUCK is that in the car with him? That's not Randy."
"Hello, gentlemen. My name is Darl. Apparently you are using linux here in the trailer park, and I want to talk to you about our intellectual property rights, and how they might be applicable to you."
"What the fuck is he saying, Julian?"
"I dunno, Ricky. Bubbles?"
"No fuckin idea, but I don't like the looks of him."
"Me neither, Bubs. Ricky, you have permission to do whatever you want to this sheister."
"You fuckin heard the man, Darl. Julian said."
WHAMMO!!
"How's that for pintoflectual flights!!"
or better... "I'm Rick James, bitch!!!"
From Yahoo:
Prev Close: 4.20
I think that is quite telling, considering the company, and probably the source of their business strategy.
Other enhancements to the SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 update include:
Mozilla Web browser 1.6 adds new features including tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, and PDF support
User-Level threads increases application availability
Squid Web Proxy Cache 2.5STABLE5 with expanded authentication schemes, optimizes searching, SSL gatewaying, and more
DVD/CD recording and enhanced printer support
Perl 5.8.4
Supplemental graphics, Web and X11 libraries
Apache HTTP Server 1.3.31
OpenSSH 3.8p1
BIND 8.4.4
They were using Microsoft Word to write the briefs.
Clippy kept popping up with things like "It looks like you're preparing to sue one of Microsoft's business partners, are you sure you don't want to reconsider" and escalating to "You are making Uncle Bill VERY unhappy."
It finally crashed and sent an "Error Report" with the full text to Microsoft headquarters.
In the end they just installed OpenOffice and finished.
Most of the two hours was downloading the OpenOffice install.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
Shit, forgot to use linebreaks like a retard...
....
In A.D. 2004
War was beginning.
BayStar: What happen ?
Investor: Somebody set up us the SCO shares.
BayStar's Lawyer: We get phone call.
BayStar: What !
BayStar's Lawyer: Main phone turn on.
BayStar: It's You !!
Darl: How are you gentlemen !!
Darl: All your share are belong to us.
Darl: You are on the way to bankruptcy.
BayStar: What you say !!
Darl: You have no chance to survive make your trade.
Darl: HA HA HA HA
BayStar: Take off every lawsuit !!
BayStar: You know what you doing.
BayStar: Move lawsuit.
BayStar: For great justice.
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The effects of an outright SCO win would be devastating to the (at least the US) economy. These are the questions to be asking, and potentially planning for.
I see. And what (exactly) are your contingency plans for when monkeys fly out of your butt?
You did say that everybody need contingency plans. Please share yours with the group; I for one am extremely interested.
How about if it starts raining cows tomorrow? Not just a couple, but thousands and thousands of cows in the span of a few minutes.
Surely you have a contingency plan for that too, right?