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SCO Says IBM Hurt Profits

Posted by kdawson on from the and-a-bandaid-for-your-knee dept.

AlanS2002 sends in a link from a local Utah newspaper covering the SCO-IBM trial. The Deseret News chose to emphasize SCO's claim that IBM hurt SCO's relationship with several high-tech powerhouses, causing SCO's market share and revenues to plummet. "[A]n attorney for Lindon-based SCO said IBM 'pressured' companies to cut off their relationships with SCO. And 'the effect on SCO was devastating and it was immediate'..." As usual Groklaw has chapter and verse on all the arguments in the motions for summary judgement.

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  1. Re:Infinite variations on a theme? by kimvette · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is like watching a train wreck, you cannot help but watch.

    Except in the case of SCO, the train is heading for a compact car, and we're all rooting for the train.

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  2. This will never end by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    After they're done with this suit, they will sue IBM for messing up their restrooms, for parking in the wrong spots, for eating greasy food while looking at their legal documents, for IBM laywers not wiping their feet before entering SCO on rainy days, for sneazing colds around, etc. etc. etc.

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  3. Re:Almost 5 Years... by MarkRose · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can we call this one a dead horse and move on?

    Nei-ei-ei-eigh!

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  4. So what? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    SCO Says IBM Hurt Profits

    Good.

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  5. Re:Well by Andy_R · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Since when was IBM responsible for SCO's profits?"

    Since the day SCO's business plan switched from 'sell stuff' to 'pretend we own patents on IBM's stuff'.

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  6. Re:An interesting question, indeed. by phasm42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Big businesses do not own massive climate controlled rooms filled with panties. We hope.

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  7. Re:Wait, what? SCO?! -- what year IS this, anyway? by z3d4r · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your posting to slashdot, and u have a 4 digit uid. You will never have children, as that requires interaction on an intimate level with a member of the opposite sex.

    More likely your home made robotic shark with freakin lasers will read about the SCO debacle in soviet russia as they welcome their new beowulf cluster overlords running linux.

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  8. Re:Wait, what? SCO?! -- what year IS this, anyway? by Seumas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Screw you, I have PLENTY of intimate interactions with members of the opposite sex! Sure, they usually aren't aware of it, but still . . . :P

  9. The 3 Stages of SCO Business Plan... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, they started with:
    1. License Linux for $699 a-piece
    2. ???
    3. Profit!!!

    Then it turned into:
    1. ???
    2. ???
    3. Profit!!!

    And now, finally it's:
    1. ???
    2. ???
    3. ???

  10. Re:Good by schon · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not like it is going to go up in a puff of smoke once someone sees it. No, but (to paraphrase Douglas Adams) it might go up in a puff of logic.

    actually, let me fix that: s/might/would/