Did IBM ever have a chance to settle before now without handing over cash to SCO? Now IBM is in a position to settle with SCO over their mutual differences without paying any money. "We'll offset your suit against our counter suit".
The result maybe that:
SCO is happy because IBM will effectively license SCO's "own" IP and thus validate SCO's new business model, and thus still be able to pursue other distributors for real cash. The SCO stock price stays high as they have been seen to be successful.
IBM is happy because it successfully avoided a $3billion law suit without handing over any money, by just using its back catalogue of patents, it can continue to legally distribute Linix on its own hardware, potentially IBM becomes the only licensed distributor apart from SCO.
Redhat may have spotted this possibility, which maybe why it has also filed suit and not just left it up to a fight between SCO and IBM.
"They said it was from another hardware vendor, but they didn't say who," Skiba told internetnews.com. "I think it's clear that they didn't mean HP or Sun."
When I checked in mid-June, SCO's total capitalization was only $132 million. It had $5 million in cash. Red Hat's shares were up, too, from a low of $3.46 to a peak of $9.25. Its capitalization stood at $1.3 billion, and it had $300 million in cash.
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Did IBM ever have a chance to settle before now without handing over cash to SCO? Now IBM is in a position to settle with SCO over their mutual differences without paying any money. "We'll offset your suit against our counter suit".
The result maybe that:
SCO is happy because IBM will effectively license SCO's "own" IP and thus validate SCO's new business model, and thus still be able to pursue other distributors for real cash. The SCO stock price stays high as they have been seen to be successful.
IBM is happy because it successfully avoided a $3billion law suit without handing over any money, by just using its back catalogue of patents, it can continue to legally distribute Linix on its own hardware, potentially IBM becomes the only licensed distributor apart from SCO.
Redhat may have spotted this possibility, which maybe why it has also filed suit and not just left it up to a fight between SCO and IBM.
Then again I could be talking complete bollocks
use MIME::Base64;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use Socket;
my $email_trap = encode_base64(inet_ntoa(scalar gethostbyname(remote_host() || 'localhost')));
$email_trap =~ s/=//g;
$email_trap =~ s/\n//g;
print "<a href=\"mailto:$email_trap\@xyz.com\">This is a spam trap</a>";
# my $remote_addr = decode_base64( $email_trap );
improvements welcomed