SCO could be picked up by Sun, since the latter has a better image in the market. That could give a boost to the battered image of SCO.
Who would think better of SCO just because they were acquired? Instead, a SUN acquisition of SCO would just drag SUN's quickly-fading reputation down even further. I guess Sun might gain some goodwill if they were to buy SUN, fire current management, and cancel all the SCO legal attacks. But that won't happen, as Sun is presently PROMOTING the SCO attacks in full-page WSJ advertisements and letters to corporations. Sun has no interest in stopping the SCO barratry. And for anyone to buy SCO would give Mcbride et. all exactly what they want. We need to show them that crime doesn't pay!
Here is another article that just came out regarding the SUNW/SCOX partnership. It offers more silly quotes from SCO's Blake Stowell whining that IBM "is continuing to ship AIX, and ignoring the fact that we've terminated their rights to it." Poor little SCO! Mean IBM is ignoring them!
Obviously SUNW still sells a lot of hardware, but they aren't growing. Take a look at their revenue numbers:
2001 - 18,250M
2002 - 12,496M
2003 - 11,500M (consensus estimate)
Meanwhile their stock has plummeted from 65 (Aug '00) to under 5 now.
Yes, Sun is hurting badly. And competition from Linux and AIX may be an important factor. But that is no excuse for this underhanded behavior! If SUN had had admitted to purchasing the license and come out against SCO FUD, I could forgive them. Instead, SUN has been milking the bogus SCO allegations for all they are worth. Sun even took out a full-page add in the Wall Street Journal casting aspersions at Linux and AIX. Now we find out that they had yet another ulterior motive for this - a secret agreement agreement with SCO allowing SUN to cheaply purchase and then sell FUD-inflated shares!
Maybe you should do your atroturfing from an account that isn't so
easily traceable back to you. Your own page includes a link
where you are very proud of writing this
troll, from none other than "I Am The Owl". You also own the
accounts electricmonk, SumDeusExMachina, "Theo DeRaadt", and I could list many
more. How many of the posts in the interview are from yourself? How
many mod points have you abused in this interview with all these
accounts?
Since you find it so funny to impersonate Theo, I thought you would
get a laugh out of me creating this account in your name: Kevin
R. Fogleman. Since you Stanford email address no longer works, would
you please post your Florida contact info? When you graduate from
the university, and start looking for jobs, what do you think employers will
find when they Google for your name? I'm sure they'll think all your
shenanigans of posing as women and harassing OBSD developers are
hilarious! Sorry if this sounds overly harsh, but I am speaking from experience. I made a similar mistake in college and now can't ever take it back.
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Who would think better of SCO just because they were acquired? Instead, a SUN acquisition of SCO would just drag SUN's quickly-fading reputation down even further. I guess Sun might gain some goodwill if they were to buy SUN, fire current management, and cancel all the SCO legal attacks. But that won't happen, as Sun is presently PROMOTING the SCO attacks in full-page WSJ advertisements and letters to corporations. Sun has no interest in stopping the SCO barratry. And for anyone to buy SCO would give Mcbride et. all exactly what they want. We need to show them that crime doesn't pay!
Here is another article that just came out regarding the SUNW/SCOX partnership. It offers more silly quotes from SCO's Blake Stowell whining that IBM "is continuing to ship AIX, and ignoring the fact that we've terminated their rights to it." Poor little SCO! Mean IBM is ignoring them!
2001 - 18,250M
2002 - 12,496M
2003 - 11,500M (consensus estimate)
Meanwhile their stock has plummeted from 65 (Aug '00) to under 5 now.
Yes, Sun is hurting badly. And competition from Linux and AIX may be an important factor. But that is no excuse for this underhanded behavior! If SUN had had admitted to purchasing the license and come out against SCO FUD, I could forgive them. Instead, SUN has been milking the bogus SCO allegations for all they are worth. Sun even took out a full-page add in the Wall Street Journal casting aspersions at Linux and AIX. Now we find out that they had yet another ulterior motive for this - a secret agreement agreement with SCO allowing SUN to cheaply purchase and then sell FUD-inflated shares!
Maybe you should do your atroturfing from an account that isn't so easily traceable back to you. Your own page includes a link where you are very proud of writing this troll, from none other than "I Am The Owl". You also own the accounts electricmonk, SumDeusExMachina, "Theo DeRaadt", and I could list many more. How many of the posts in the interview are from yourself? How many mod points have you abused in this interview with all these accounts?
Since you find it so funny to impersonate Theo, I thought you would get a laugh out of me creating this account in your name: Kevin R. Fogleman. Since you Stanford email address no longer works, would you please post your Florida contact info? When you graduate from the university, and start looking for jobs, what do you think employers will find when they Google for your name? I'm sure they'll think all your shenanigans of posing as women and harassing OBSD developers are hilarious! Sorry if this sounds overly harsh, but I am speaking from experience. I made a similar mistake in college and now can't ever take it back.
-m0nk