"He's right. All the big guys are out to get SCO. What he didn't mention is that all the little and medium-sized guys hate them too."
Don't forget the gals too. The whole planet hates him. Who votes to visit SCO with torches, pitchforks and a rope. It has been to long since Utah hung criminals.
We had a Fast food place (name with held) near work, we called it the mystery meal. No matter what you ordered, you got something else. I never knew of anyone getting even part of their order right.
I have heard SCO attack our rights and our property. (Yes, I believe we all own rights to Linux under the GPL)
I feel we have all been guilty of apathy.
SCO has corporate clients. We need to put pressure on any user of SCO software. We can call, write, e-mailand protest in front of SCO Scum Clients ASAP. A few million boycott e-mails to each, would work. These are SCO supporters that I am aware of: (from http://www.sco.com/company/success/)
HP and Compaq McDonalds Corp. PizzaHut Corp. Wendys Corp. i Mobile Computing, Inc. (iMC) HON Industries Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners Michaels arts and crafts Peter's Food Service in Bedwas, South Wales Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc. W. Bridgewater, MA Sound Advice Electronics stores Shoppers Drug Mart, Canada Kuwait Petroleum Corp. Sodexho Australia, Telstra Stadium in Australia Pearle Europe B.V. Costco Wholesale Family Mart, Taiwan Save Mart Supermarkets, the Modesto, Calif Professional Datasolutions Inc (PDI), Temple, TX Rouse's, Grocery Thibodaux, La. Store 24, Waltham, Mass. Swiss Chalet, Los Angeles, Houston and Miami Condor Software, Pelham, Ala. PCMS, Coventry, England The Dixon Group, England Currys PC World computer specialty stores. The Link mobile phone specialty stores. Telsoft Switchview Nuance APEX Voice Communications Brooktrout Technology Virginia- based EIS International Faximum Software Inc. Fujitsu Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based Voicetek NEC America, Inc.'s (NEC) Corporate Networks Group Priority Call Management of Wilmington, Mass Richmond Hill, Ontario based Synamics Inc. Microlog Germantown, Maryland Nortel, Brampton Ontario, Canada Palace Resorts Cancun, Mexico
Cendant Corp Cendant lodging brands include Amerihost Inn, Days Inn, Howard Johnson, Knights Inn, Ramada Inn, Super 8, Travelodge
W.E.T. Automotive Systems AG, Odelzhausen, Germany
If Linux users loudly boycott SCO clients, SCO will back down FAST.
What is really unfortunate is that the e-vote will result in no possible investigation of another 2000 election. I wonder which political party is in charge of the voting system. Diebold has strong Republican ties, Can anyone claim indifference? Maybe use the UN, Canada or Mexico to supervise the election hardware. (never happen) I believe this system could be another jack boot on the neck of freedom.
Read this Story about another dotbomb and BayStar investments: Text from Redherring.com www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?f= articles%2farchi ve%2finvestor%2f2000%2f0420%2finv-worldonline04200 0.xml
World Online stock shock rocks Europe
As youthful European dot-com companies go public, they better stick to the rules and offer transparency, or their valuation -- and their investors -- will suffer.
For someone who liked to brag that she had made her first $30 million before she was 30 years old, Nina Brink's justification for selling off a large chunk of her stake -- at the bargain basement price of 6 euros a share -- just before her company went public in the Netherlands last month rang hollow.
Her reason, that she "was securing the financial future of her family," didn't seem sufficiently sound, especially to the thousands of investors who have collectively lost some 4 billion guilders (about 1.71 billion dollars) when World Online 's (NL: WRDOL) shares plummeted as the news of the move was made public.
This wasn't supposed to happen to World Online, much less to Europe's nascent Internet economy. The incident, however, has sent both the company and the sector into a tailspin. Investment banks are wary of the increased scrutiny that company-share prospectuses will now receive, and Europe's new retail investor class worry that dot-com companies might only be hype after all.
The incident throws a spotlight on the degree to which investors are protected by strict transparency rules as Europe's stock markets compete to woo dot-com firms to list on their exchanges. Also, it marks a mighty blow to Ms. Brink herself, who previously was hailed as a role model for women seeking a place at the top of Europe's dot-com corporate echelon.
WOE TO THE WORLD
World Online, widely regarded as one of Europe's success stories, is the paragon of all that must be avoided as the Net boom moves to Europe -- and the lessons from the fallout are many.
The Dutch Internet service provider (ISP) seemed to have decent management, an ever-growing brand, and the ability to scale quickly across Europe, as evidenced by its pan-European buying spree of ISPs over the past 12 months. Along with Lastminute.com -- a recently public company whose stock is similarly trading below its offer price -- World Online was often cited by investment bankers and Internet entrepreneurs as the poster child of European startups that would show the U.S. that the continent didn't need to rely on dot-com imports.
Yet trouble began just days after the company went public on March 17, when news surfaced that Ms. Brink had sold 6.35 percent of her 9.48 percent in the company to three investment funds, at a share price of just over 6 euros each. One of these funds was Baystar Capital, a private U.S. investment fund, which dumped 1.2 million of its shares, or 9 percent of its stake, on the day of the IPO. Baystar, it turns out, hadn't agreed to a lock-up, and a closer reading of the prospectus revealed that Ms. Brink was to share in the profits of any of Baystar's sales. To investors, it looked as if Ms. Brink was trying to get around the lock-up. More importantly, it looked as if she lacked confidence in her own company.
Investors fled the stock, sending it into freefall. Today, it trades at just under 15 euros, a 65 percent drop from its offer price of 43 euros. Ms. Brink resigned from the company on April 3 after being pushed out by large institutional investors following what the Dutch media dubbed a stock market scandal. The company, however, has retained a role for her on its advisory board.
SCO execs are seeking to get rid of all their stock cheap and legal.
You get in DMCA trouble for pointing to keys. What happens to those companies that make devices "for the pupose of disabling copyright protection"? Like Microsoft, Logitech, Dell, Gateway, or anyone who makes a keyboard with a printed label? How can this pass beta testing? I do not know what is wrong at that company. Someone in the software quality lab there needs to be fired. Maybe this company is using the SCO business plan. (Fire everyone but the lawyers) "We will sue you if we F up"
I could be wrong but this only leaves SCO with three choices:
1. They can't complain about the features, just individual code fragments. They have just told SGI that fixing the individual code fragments isn't sufficient.
2. They challenge the GPL.
3. Drop the suits against IBM and SGI and watch their stock tank.
You missed one
4. Run mouth, embrace and extend the court date for as long as possible.
"I mean, we are talking about a President who basically went to war against a country based upon a vendetta (all the other charges simply were window dressing)"
I hope one day we do not need speech navigation or command, instead, The computer reads your mind, and answers the question you were about to ask. Can I patent this? Can it run the nuclear arsenal?
I for one, would welcome our know-it-all overlords.
I worked at a print bureau in Orlando, We had Macs and PCs On a G3 300Mhz vs P3 300Mhz with the same amount of RAM (256 MB) Running Adobe Photoshop: (We had Graphics speed races on the same image file) Mac's Rotate large images files faster, slightly. PC's downsize large images faster. Very much so Viruses are much more pleasant on the Macintosh (Autostart at the time) PC's (Win 98SE) network faster that Mac's (OS9) Macs make nice car crash sound for SCSI bus errors.:) Mac's do Pantone colors better.
Canopy group=BAD SCO=BAD Others=? Do they only hire lawyers? Have they laid off all their programmers? Do they have a past history of lawsuits? Do they try to steal code?
Slashdot Mirror
How about a printer attached to Tin Foil Hat Linux
This would just about be hack proof. (Tin Foil Hat Linux does not support networking at all)
"He's right. All the big guys are out to get SCO. What he didn't mention is that all the little and medium-sized guys hate them too."
Don't forget the gals too.
The whole planet hates him.
Who votes to visit SCO with torches, pitchforks and a rope.
It has been to long since Utah hung criminals.
"Maybe in a /. story a year from now we'll see all of the alledged "evidence" of SCO's case."
/dev/null
We have seen all the evidence already.
To see all Unixware code in Linux, Look in
We had a Fast food place (name with held)
near work, we called it the mystery meal.
No matter what you ordered, you got something else. I never knew of anyone getting even part of their order right.
And now Microsft will help us out.
I said download ANTI virus!
I have heard SCO attack our rights and our property.
(Yes, I believe we all own rights to Linux under the GPL)
I feel we have all been guilty of apathy.
SCO has corporate clients. We need to put pressure on any user of SCO software.
We can call, write, e-mailand protest in front of SCO Scum Clients ASAP.
A few million boycott e-mails to each, would work.
These are SCO supporters that I am aware of:
(from http://www.sco.com/company/success/)
HP and Compaq
McDonalds Corp.
PizzaHut Corp.
Wendys Corp.
i Mobile Computing, Inc. (iMC)
HON Industries
Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners
Michaels arts and crafts
Peter's Food Service in Bedwas, South Wales
Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc. W. Bridgewater, MA
Sound Advice Electronics stores
Shoppers Drug Mart, Canada
Kuwait Petroleum Corp.
Sodexho Australia, Telstra Stadium in Australia
Pearle Europe B.V.
Costco Wholesale
Family Mart, Taiwan
Save Mart Supermarkets, the Modesto, Calif
Professional Datasolutions Inc (PDI), Temple, TX
Rouse's, Grocery Thibodaux, La.
Store 24, Waltham, Mass.
Swiss Chalet, Los Angeles, Houston and Miami
Condor Software, Pelham, Ala.
PCMS, Coventry, England
The Dixon Group, England
Currys
PC World computer specialty stores.
The Link mobile phone specialty stores.
Telsoft
Switchview
Nuance
APEX Voice Communications
Brooktrout Technology
Virginia- based EIS International
Faximum Software Inc.
Fujitsu
Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based Voicetek
NEC America, Inc.'s (NEC) Corporate Networks Group
Priority Call Management of Wilmington, Mass
Richmond Hill, Ontario based Synamics Inc.
Microlog Germantown, Maryland
Nortel, Brampton Ontario, Canada
Palace Resorts Cancun, Mexico
Cendant Corp
Cendant lodging brands include Amerihost Inn, Days Inn, Howard Johnson, Knights Inn, Ramada Inn, Super 8, Travelodge
W.E.T. Automotive Systems AG, Odelzhausen, Germany
If Linux users loudly boycott SCO clients, SCO will back down FAST.
" You know, the mice that were running the show in the first place ..."
No, Sontag and McBride only try to take over the world every night.
Sontag and McBride, Sontag and McBride.
One is a moron, the other he lied.
What SCO wants is a copy of the AIX code base, after all Longhorn is late. You don't think SCO got 50 million for nothing, do you?
Gator is not spyware, So we are told.
.gator.com
OK, I can deal with that.
Gator is a VIRUS
Can we get the squid-cache people to add to the default acl list:
acl gator dstdomain
acl gator deny
I hope gator never runs Linux or Mozilla.
What is really unfortunate is that the e-vote will result in no possible investigation of another 2000 election. I wonder which political party is in charge of the voting system. Diebold has strong Republican ties, Can anyone claim indifference?
Maybe use the UN, Canada or Mexico to supervise the election hardware. (never happen)
I believe this system could be another jack boot on the neck of freedom.
Read this Story about another dotbomb and BayStar investments:= articles%2farchi ve%2finvestor%2f2000%2f0420%2finv-worldonline04200 0.xml
Text from Redherring.com
www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?f
World Online stock shock rocks Europe
As youthful European dot-com companies go public, they better stick to the rules and offer transparency, or their valuation -- and their investors -- will suffer.
For someone who liked to brag that she had made her first $30 million before she was 30 years old, Nina Brink's justification for selling off a large chunk of her stake -- at the bargain basement price of 6 euros a share -- just before her company went public in the Netherlands last month rang hollow.
Her reason, that she "was securing the financial future of her family," didn't seem sufficiently sound, especially to the thousands of investors who have collectively lost some 4 billion guilders (about 1.71 billion dollars) when World Online 's (NL: WRDOL) shares plummeted as the news of the move was made public.
This wasn't supposed to happen to World Online, much less to Europe's nascent Internet economy. The incident, however, has sent both the company and the sector into a tailspin. Investment banks are wary of the increased scrutiny that company-share prospectuses will now receive, and Europe's new retail investor class worry that dot-com companies might only be hype after all.
The incident throws a spotlight on the degree to which investors are protected by strict transparency rules as Europe's stock markets compete to woo dot-com firms to list on their exchanges. Also, it marks a mighty blow to Ms. Brink herself, who previously was hailed as a role model for women seeking a place at the top of Europe's dot-com corporate echelon.
WOE TO THE WORLD
World Online, widely regarded as one of Europe's success stories, is the paragon of all that must be avoided as the Net boom moves to Europe -- and the lessons from the fallout are many.
The Dutch Internet service provider (ISP) seemed to have decent management, an ever-growing brand, and the ability to scale quickly across Europe, as evidenced by its pan-European buying spree of ISPs over the past 12 months. Along with Lastminute.com -- a recently public company whose stock is similarly trading below its offer price -- World Online was often cited by investment bankers and Internet entrepreneurs as the poster child of European startups that would show the U.S. that the continent didn't need to rely on dot-com imports.
Yet trouble began just days after the company went public on March 17, when news surfaced that Ms. Brink had sold 6.35 percent of her 9.48 percent in the company to three investment funds, at a share price of just over 6 euros each. One of these funds was Baystar Capital, a private U.S. investment fund, which dumped 1.2 million of its shares, or 9 percent of its stake, on the day of the IPO. Baystar, it turns out, hadn't agreed to a lock-up, and a closer reading of the prospectus revealed that Ms. Brink was to share in the profits of any of Baystar's sales. To investors, it looked as if Ms. Brink was trying to get around the lock-up. More importantly, it looked as if she lacked confidence in her own company.
Investors fled the stock, sending it into freefall. Today, it trades at just under 15 euros, a 65 percent drop from its offer price of 43 euros. Ms. Brink resigned from the company on April 3 after being pushed out by large institutional investors following what the Dutch media dubbed a stock market scandal. The company, however, has retained a role for her on its advisory board.
SCO execs are seeking to get rid of all their stock cheap and legal.
I for one would never buy a SCO license.
Who would want to hand SCO a stick to beat you with?
Remember:
Contract are used against you by SCO.
For when the $#!+ gets deep.
This is an outrage!
Can we believe it?
Few companies can continue to function if even 30% of their systems fail catastrophically.
So, 30% was running on windows?
"Any links on what signs to look for before your cell phone battery explodes?"
If the caller ID says "Mossad", do not answer.
You get in DMCA trouble for pointing to keys.
What happens to those companies that make devices "for the pupose of disabling copyright protection"?
Like Microsoft, Logitech, Dell, Gateway, or anyone who makes a keyboard with a printed label?
How can this pass beta testing? I do not know what is wrong at that company. Someone in the software quality lab there needs to be fired. Maybe this company is using the SCO business plan.
(Fire everyone but the lawyers)
"We will sue you if we F up"
1. They can't complain about the features, just individual code fragments. They have just told SGI that fixing the individual code fragments isn't sufficient.
2. They challenge the GPL.
3. Drop the suits against IBM and SGI and watch their stock tank.
You missed one
4. Run mouth, embrace and extend the court date for as long as possible.
Darl:
Your honor SCO objects to any juror with an IQ over 2, that does not own stock in SCO.
I for one enjoy your Troll. But you are an Idiot.
Also change that name before you get to prison, as inmates will love the name Darl.
Your company has no product left to sell, a$$H@le, after IBM's PATENT violations get you in court.
"I mean, we are talking about a President who basically went to war against a country based upon a vendetta (all the other charges simply were window dressing)"
Keep up that talk, and he will "leak" YOUR name.
I hope one day we do not need speech navigation or command, instead, The computer reads your mind, and answers the question you were about to ask.
Can I patent this? Can it run the nuclear arsenal?
I for one, would welcome our know-it-all overlords.
I worked at a print bureau in Orlando, We had Macs and PCs :)
......
On a G3 300Mhz vs P3 300Mhz with the same amount of RAM (256 MB)
Running Adobe Photoshop: (We had Graphics speed races on the same image file)
Mac's Rotate large images files faster, slightly.
PC's downsize large images faster. Very much so
Viruses are much more pleasant on the Macintosh (Autostart at the time)
PC's (Win 98SE) network faster that Mac's (OS9)
Macs make nice car crash sound for SCSI bus errors.
Mac's do Pantone colors better.
I prefer Linux to both
Canopy group=BAD
SCO=BAD
Others=?
Do they only hire lawyers?
Have they laid off all their programmers?
Do they have a past history of lawsuits?
Do they try to steal code?
There is always the military, nowadays that IS job security....They train too.
In this Bushed economy, unemployment does you.
sad, that this is not a joke.