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Investors Bailing On SCO Stock, SCOX Plummets
HailDorothy writes "SCO's stock price is plummeting in the aftermath of Judge Kimball's ruling that Novell owns the UNIX copyrights, as we discussed earlier. '[W]e will continue to explore our options with respect to how we move forward from here,' SCO said in a public statement issued in a futile attempt to calm investors. SCO's stock price has fallen 70 percent during trading today, reaching a 52-week low. It looks like the end is near for SCO, which still owes Novell 95 percent of the SVRX UNIX royalties it collected from Microsoft and Sun through the SCOsource program. As Judge Kimbell noted in his ruling, it's unlikely that Novell will ever be able to collect on those royalties."
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: SCO is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeSCO is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeSCO developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeSCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenSCO leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenSCO. How many users of NetSCO are there? Let's see. The number of OpenSCO versus NetSCO posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetSCO users. SCO/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetSCO posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SCO/OS. A recent article put FreeSCO at about 80 percent of the SCO market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)4 = 36400 FreeSCO users. This is consistent with the number of FreeSCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeSCO went out of business and was taken over by SCOI who sell another troubled OS. Now SCOI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save SCO from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
Mess wid da penguin and get fucked up homey!!!
What sort of punishment would be appropriate here? The crime was apparently filing a lawsuit that didn't pan out.
Of course, you reasonable open source loving freedom espousing nerds only like to apply your ideals under your own conditions. Heaven forbid you act like human beings every now and again
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In an interview earlier today, Tux the Penguin was asked about his reaction to the Novel ruling. His reply was "Eat my lightning, fuckers!".
Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est. Omnes castelli tuus nostri sunt. Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
...Darl McBride's arraignment on numerous charges.
-- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
The punishment for fraud is restitution, compensation, fines, and sometimes jail.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Even when people like this get fired they do fine, just look at Carly Fiorina.
Sometimes, people are held accountable. When there's money to be made doing it, that sometimes is often.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Thank you for linking to that image, it conveys the idea very well without making you come across as an angry child, and you are quite the authoritative source on this topic!
Your comment is spot-on and using dollar signs to spell company names does not characterize you as a zealot or complete loser! Certainly the offtopic and seemingly clever jabs at Microsoft and Sun was justified! People like you are so cool, even when they are stuck with dead-end jobs because they have very special personalities!