In order to keep the existing shareholders happy and not get sued you would have to buy ALL of the shares. $195 million dollars assuming 13.1 milllion a share at $15 a share. Now difficult for us...sure. However there are several companies producing flavors of Unix. Having SCO prove they own the Unix codebase may not be a bad thing, If companies backing open source can buy all the rights to Unix all at once settling all outstanding IP issues then donate the code to say FSF for a Tax Writeoff of several billion dollars...that would be worth something.
Digital,compaq, IBM, and HP all make versions of Unix. The value of freely being able to pick over the System V codebase has got to be worth something.
However 67+ is what they call a "veto-proof" majority. It shows the President that there are already enough votes to override his veto, at that point the president either lets the bill pass without his signature or tries to get enough people to change their minds to sustain the veto. The founders wanted the veto to be really strong hence the 2/3 vote in both houses required to override
Instead file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. http://www.ftc.gov and click on file a complaint right at the top. Tell the FTC that SCO is making demands for license fees based on unsubstantiated claims. Keep the nastygram as evidence for the FTC.
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Im sick of a--holes, who tell me and others like me didnt suffer or "thats what everyone went through and stop whining."
What the f--k is the difference between being physically abused by a peer or being physically abused by a parent? The difference is if your physically abused by a parent you can call family services and theyll act. You try reporting physical abuse by a peer the abuser wont even get arrested will get some minor slap on the wrist and then beat u up again for reporting them.
This is not about "having no friends" . I would have been happy having no friends if the bullies would have just left me the h-ll alone!
Some of us have emotional scars that have lasted years, and therapy bills going into the thousands of dollars, and we didnt suffer?
Most of us didnt care if we didnt hang around with the popular people, or had only a few friends, or didnt get many dates. We just didnt think it was right to be tormented by others because didnt have those things.
Lawyers have more effect on schools than any letter writing campaign. One lawsuit can achieve more than 10,000 letters. The day schools have to pay for negligence in allowing brutality is the day things will start to change.
As a political science geek, let me clear things up for you. There is no US board of education, it is the department of education and they wont do a damn thing. The local school board and the state dept of education have the most control. The fact is writing letters wont do anything most of the time because you cant vote,so they dont care. HOWEVER, in most states you can contribute to political campaigns. If say 50 geeks gave $20 a pop to their local school board members campaign who pledged to actually do something to help you. You better believe a $1000 in campaign contributions will get attention both from the candidate and from the press. The press loves "kids who are involved in the process" and if school board members who are anti-geek see that kids are so angry that they are actually willing to contribute money and time to their opponents campaigns, you better believe that will get their attention.
The ugly fact is messed up geeks shooting kids doesnt scare the politicians,it just gives them another anti-geek crusade to do. Geeks who figures out that the real long-term enemy, is not the bully at the school, but the politicians who refuses to take action to protect students frighten the heck out of them.
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In order to keep the existing shareholders happy and not get sued you would have to buy ALL of the shares. $195 million dollars assuming 13.1 milllion a share at $15 a share. Now difficult for us...sure. However there are several companies producing flavors of Unix.
Having SCO prove they own the Unix codebase may not be a bad thing, If companies backing open source can buy all the rights to Unix all at once settling all outstanding IP issues then donate the code to say FSF for a Tax Writeoff of several billion dollars...that would be worth something.
Digital,compaq, IBM, and HP all make versions of Unix. The value of freely being able to pick over the System V codebase has got to be worth something.
Dont complain about stock manipulation
to the FTC its not their job.
SCO's actions possibly involve both stock
and dubious trade practices.
However 67+ is what they call a "veto-proof" majority. It shows the President that there are already enough votes to override his veto, at that point the president either lets the bill pass without his signature or tries to get enough people to change their minds to sustain the veto. The founders wanted the veto to be really strong hence the 2/3 vote in both houses required to override
Actually its more like the scene in Jurassic park right before the Lawyer gets eaten by the t-rex.
Instead file a complaint with the
Federal Trade Commission.
http://www.ftc.gov and click on
file a complaint right at the top.
Tell the FTC that SCO is making demands
for license fees based on unsubstantiated
claims. Keep the nastygram as evidence
for the FTC.
Im sick of a--holes, who tell me and others like me didnt suffer or "thats what everyone went through and stop whining."
What the f--k is the difference between being physically abused by a peer or being physically abused by a parent? The difference is if your physically abused by a parent you can call family services and theyll act. You try reporting physical abuse by a peer the abuser wont even get arrested will get some minor slap on the wrist and then beat u up again for reporting them.
This is not about "having no friends" . I would have been happy having no friends if the bullies would have just left me the h-ll alone!
Some of us have emotional scars that have lasted years, and therapy bills going into the thousands of dollars, and we didnt suffer?
Most of us didnt care if we didnt hang around with the popular people, or had only a few friends, or didnt get many dates. We just didnt think it was right to be tormented by others because didnt have those things.
Lawyers have more effect on schools than
any letter writing campaign. One lawsuit can
achieve more than 10,000 letters.
The day schools have to pay for negligence
in allowing brutality is the day things will
start to change.
As a political science geek, let me clear things
up for you. There is no US board of education, it is the department of education and they wont do a damn thing. The local school board and the state dept of education have the most control. The fact is writing letters wont do anything most of the time because you cant vote,so they dont care. HOWEVER, in most states you can contribute to political campaigns. If say 50 geeks gave $20 a pop to their local school board members campaign
who pledged to actually do something to help you.
You better believe a $1000 in campaign contributions will get attention both from the
candidate and from the press. The press loves
"kids who are involved in the process" and if
school board members who are anti-geek see that kids are so angry that they are actually willing to contribute money and time to their opponents campaigns, you better believe that will get their attention.
The ugly fact is messed up geeks shooting kids doesnt scare the politicians,it just gives them another anti-geek crusade to do. Geeks who figures
out that the real long-term enemy, is not the
bully at the school, but the politicians who refuses to take action to protect students frighten the heck out of them.