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SCO Playing Name Games
Ghost in the Shell Game writes "We've long known that SCO has had a twisted view of UNIX history, sometimes pretending to be oldSCO when it suits them, and a separate business entity when it does not. However, according to this piece on Groklaw, they're now registering the UNIX System Laboratories trademark in what looks like an attempt to confuse history further. If you're wondering how they can do this, the USL trademark was abandoned in 1993, when USL was bought out by Novell. Hopefully, no one will be fooled by this name game, any more than we were when the spyware maker Gator changed their name to Claria."
I think the name game is more closely related to the original Napster vs the current Napster then the Claria/Gator bs.
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
Won't matter, though; stock has lost its $5 support
It's not always that logical (as much as I wish it was). SCO issues this USL release and suddenly the stock spikes up to $4.55 after opening at $4.11. WTF??? Then again, if people are willing to believe Michael Moore, half the population cannot be reasoned with.
Remember that not all stock buying is in anticipation of the stock going up; particularly in this case, it can just be buying to cover short positions.
Either way, it's probably not getting back into major league baseball.
--You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
I live in the wrong country so I don't think that I can do it. Someone like Red Hat would do nicely (especially if the The Open Group group pitched in).
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
It's a blatant attempt to prepare for reopening the BSD settlement. Just before their IBM/Novel souts fold, they will announce ownership of BSD and all BSD-related code (TCP/IP stack, anyone?).
Quite possible. Rather interesting thought, given that MS has used BSD code (finger, telnet, ftp utilities). I wonder if they'd want to support that kind of litigation.
Personally, I think it'd be interesting to see that case re-opened. Bad for BSD, but likely SCO will have lost all credibility by then, so perhaps it wouldn't be so bad. After all, the judge in the previous suit not only found that AT&T was likely guilty of copyright infringement themselves, but also that Unix copyrights were unenforceable.
By re-opening the case, they face a very serious risk of having that finding put into a ruling. And *poof* all the ancient Unices are suddenly in the public domain.
Obviously that'd be bad for SCO, but who knows? After all, it's obvious they're not starting lawsuits to win, but to generate FUD.
Won't matter, though; stock has lost its $5 support,
Is there anyway to tell who is providing the price support? Obviously SCO has a stock buyback plan in place, and it's such a thinly traded stock that they can just buy 10000 shares a day and it still doesn't compare to their legal expenses. But is there any possibility that anyone else would want to provide support?
MSFT probably wouldn't care about it. In all likelyhood they have given up the idea of using SCO as goons since they're incompetent.
A mutual fund or two might want to keep their position looking good, but it's hard to imagine that any fund manager holding SCOX would have NOT read groklaw by now and closed or hedged their position by now.
Or are there just a bunch of day traders buying at 4.00 and selling at 4.20 playing off the occasional short squeeze.
It's actually quite puzzling that this stock has any value at all.
As I recall, the much debated Asset Purchase Agreement between Novell and OldSCO specified something to the effect of only including copyrights and trademarks that were "necessary" for the unix business that oldSCO bought from Novell.
Is SCO now planning to claim that they "need" the copyrights to go with the "Unix System Labs" trademark in some bizarre argument?
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When we all get RFID tags at birth then you can label them what they are - "Death"
When you buy your first pack you get "Death 40's" (Because they are smooth and oh so sexy!) Then after your birthday you walk into the store and -
"Gas, um, this Mt Dew, and a snickers and gimme that pack of Methol Death, what assholes, naming it that. My Mom said they used to have real names."
"Yeah, I kinda miss Joe and his coupons in the pack. Here ya go buddy, want that on your...?"
"Visa Uranium"
"Ok, it will bill you..."
"Yeah, I know when I hit the door."
....a few minutes pass...
"Hey um, when I was in here I asked for Death 40's - these are 39's."
"Yeah, your birthday was last year right?"
"Yeah, but..."
"No, you got the right pack, the paper display checks your Imclone RFID"
...
"Oh"
Sera
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