IBM fought to have the venue changed from Utah's courts to the Federal system and won. This results in two things: Everything takes longer and it's more expensive. While Boise might not need/take his cut of the winnings until after they have won, others are still going to want to be paid. Researchers and experts are going to want paid whether they win or not. Legal/court fees will start to accumulate and they get paid either way. While SCOs pockets can be deep, they are not bottomless.
Darrl says it's all all about the code, not about UNIX methods.
Sure. That is their story right now. Wait until the end of the day. It'll change again. Of course, it will change to yet another complaint first thing tomorrow, but it will eventaully come back around for another 15 minutes later.
Because one soundcard can't play 6 different MP3s at the same time and keep them seperate. If he wanted the same sound to go to all 6 rooms/speakers, what you suggest would work.
Q: How long will Microsoft support a platform that seems destined to be in the red for the next few years? After all, you have invested $3.5 billion on the Xbox and are still losing money on the sale of each unit.
A: We are being smart about bringing the cost of producing the Xbox console down. We can decide to not make it a long investment business and price it to get a better return, but this is a 10-, 15- and 20-year investment.
Source: Interview with Robbie Bach, chief Xbox officer (CXO) and vice-president of the Home & Entertainment Division at Microsoft Corp. June 16th, 2003.
The Register also had a recent article that puts the figure at around $150. While PC costs have dropped over the last year or two, so has the X-box price. They also have to recoup serious development and advertising fees. MSFT has over 3.5 billion wrapped up in X-box so far.
And if you forget 1111-111111111 whatever, other combinations work also. Try 2222-22222222, 3333-33333333, and 9999-99999999. I think some of those work too.
I didn't take RMS's article to be the typical "Say, would you like to try GNU/Hurd?" that is often brought up. I thought it was a good article. It's goal was to fight the smear campaign against GNU, Linux, et al. It clearly explained the basics as to the differences between Unix, Linux, GNU, and GNU/Linux. It only mentions Hurd twice, both times in conjunction with Linux and the BSD kernels. Hardly a press release.
Overall, I think that his article was more of a pep talk that GNU, Linux, whoever won't ever die then a article about SCO.
They own 46% or 47% of The SCO Group. They are the single largest investor. They also own a slew of other companies...including Linux Networx, which "focus solely on providing Linux clustering solutions."
What's your source for McBride having a large stake in the company? According to SEC filings, he has aroud 15,000 shares in SCO and a fairly meger salary (80,000). Assuming that SCO wins and half goes to the laywers, Canopy group would untimately get close to $250 million, with the remaining amounts being split up amungst other stockholders. Major stock holders are on the board, but McBride is not a major holder.
Is there anyone besides SCO that is supporting SCO? Seriously, it's obvious that many people here are on Linux/IBM's side, suprise suprise. Microsoft seemed to support them in a round-about way, but now SCO is trying to bite the hand that feeds them.
Corporations were invented to shield individuals from the liability of the corporations actions. They can be accountable for their individual actions if it's shown that they knew what they were doing was illegal.
If a company builds something today that we find out in 30 years is toxic (e.g. asbestos, arsenic, etc.), we can't sue the board of directors personally, only naming them in their official capacity.
If a company commits massive financial fixing of numbers, lies to the SEC, shareholder fraud, etc (e.g. WorldCom, Enron, Tyco, etc), then the officers can fined/jail time.
Bawa sold a little over 23,000 shares. He exercised a 7,600 share stock option and sold 15,000 exisiting shares. He has 0 left in the company. Maybe he realizes what the company is doing and did what a smart person would have done.
Olsen sold 6,000 and still owns over 66,000 shares. reference
Bench still owns over 235,000 shares after selling 14,000 shares. reference
IBM over the last month has had insider sales of over $380,000. SCO's total was about $363,000.
I've been told that SCO is very big in the financial sector in Europe. That is one of the reasons Dell wants to get into bed with SCO. Opens up a whole new market for them having SCO certified hardware.
It would appear yes...but not really. I beleive that Darcy Mott's share is the same as Canopy Groups, but I'm not sure. Check out the original SEC filing here.
The shareholders own SCO obviously. Canopy Group and Ralph Yarro are the big guys. Here are the major owners:
The following table sets forth, as of November 30, 2002, the number of shares of the common stock held of record or beneficially by each person who held of record, or who had the right to acquire shares within 60 days, or was known by us to own beneficially, more than 5% of the Company's stock, and the name and holdings of each director and named executive officer and of all executive officers and directors as a group.
The Canopy Group, Inc. 5,318,494 46.2% John R. Wall 800,000 6.9%
Ralph J. Yarro, III 5,388,669 46.8% Steve Cakebread 42,292 * Edward E. Iacobucci 57,500 * Darcy Mott 5,318,831 46.2% R. Duff Thompson 22,500 * Thomas P. Raimondi, Jr. 47,500 * Darl C. McBride 0 * Robert K. Bench 281,855 2.4% Sean Wilson 0 * Chris Sontag 0 * Opinder Bawa 20,833 *
All Officers and Directors as a Group (11 Persons) 5,835,591 50.7%
SEC filings are your friend: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542/000 104746903007344/a2104670z10-ka.htm
8 months? 8 months? SCO will be lucky if IBM lets them go in under 8 months. I say greater then 5 years before all the appeals, counter appeals, counter-counter appeals and so forth. My guess is the winner is going to be the one with deeper pockets no matter how long this goes.
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IBM might file 20,000 patents a year, but they are only granted 3,400 as of the end of 2001. At that time, they had a total of 37,000 patents.
IBM fought to have the venue changed from Utah's courts to the Federal system and won. This results in two things: Everything takes longer and it's more expensive. While Boise might not need/take his cut of the winnings until after they have won, others are still going to want to be paid. Researchers and experts are going to want paid whether they win or not. Legal/court fees will start to accumulate and they get paid either way. While SCOs pockets can be deep, they are not bottomless.
Because one soundcard can't play 6 different MP3s at the same time and keep them seperate. If he wanted the same sound to go to all 6 rooms/speakers, what you suggest would work.
It doesn't matter. You will still get useless, repeated, anonymous, speculative, rumored, trolling, and mispelt news with the other editors.
The Register also had a recent article that puts the figure at around $150. While PC costs have dropped over the last year or two, so has the X-box price. They also have to recoup serious development and advertising fees. MSFT has over 3.5 billion wrapped up in X-box so far.
And if you forget 1111-111111111 whatever, other combinations work also. Try 2222-22222222, 3333-33333333, and 9999-99999999. I think some of those work too.
Nah. It's just compressed. Here is the decompressor.
I didn't take RMS's article to be the typical "Say, would you like to try GNU/Hurd?" that is often brought up. I thought it was a good article. It's goal was to fight the smear campaign against GNU, Linux, et al. It clearly explained the basics as to the differences between Unix, Linux, GNU, and GNU/Linux. It only mentions Hurd twice, both times in conjunction with Linux and the BSD kernels. Hardly a press release.
Overall, I think that his article was more of a pep talk that GNU, Linux, whoever won't ever die then a article about SCO.
Maybe they get a break by presorting it...
Well, many videos are at 24-30 fps, so 200 would be a very low estimate. A full length movie (assume 90 minutes) would be 162 thousand pictures alone.
Compressing something in 30 lines is simple. Compressing it in 30 lines so that it can be decompressed later is a little tougher.
Caldera no longer exists. It has been offically changed to The SCO Group since the end of May. Before, it was Caldera d/b/a The SCO Group.
What's your source for McBride having a large stake in the company? According to SEC filings, he has aroud 15,000 shares in SCO and a fairly meger salary (80,000). Assuming that SCO wins and half goes to the laywers, Canopy group would untimately get close to $250 million, with the remaining amounts being split up amungst other stockholders. Major stock holders are on the board, but McBride is not a major holder.
For reference purposes, SCO lost $24 million last year on revenues of $64 million.
Is there anyone besides SCO that is supporting SCO? Seriously, it's obvious that many people here are on Linux/IBM's side, suprise suprise. Microsoft seemed to support them in a round-about way, but now SCO is trying to bite the hand that feeds them.
Corporations were invented to shield individuals from the liability of the corporations actions. They can be accountable for their individual actions if it's shown that they knew what they were doing was illegal.
If a company builds something today that we find out in 30 years is toxic (e.g. asbestos, arsenic, etc.), we can't sue the board of directors personally, only naming them in their official capacity.
If a company commits massive financial fixing of numbers, lies to the SEC, shareholder fraud, etc (e.g. WorldCom, Enron, Tyco, etc), then the officers can fined/jail time.
And between those 3, there is still over 330 thousand shares owned in SCOX. If they were going to get out, the would have gotten completely out.
Bawa sold a little over 23,000 shares. He exercised a 7,600 share stock option and sold 15,000 exisiting shares. He has 0 left in the company. Maybe he realizes what the company is doing and did what a smart person would have done.
Olsen sold 6,000 and still owns over 66,000 shares. reference
Bench still owns over 235,000 shares after selling 14,000 shares. reference
IBM over the last month has had insider sales of over $380,000. SCO's total was about $363,000.
I will have nightmares tonight because of your comment. Thanks a lot.
I've been told that SCO is very big in the financial sector in Europe. That is one of the reasons Dell wants to get into bed with SCO. Opens up a whole new market for them having SCO certified hardware.
It would appear yes...but not really. I beleive that Darcy Mott's share is the same as Canopy Groups, but I'm not sure. Check out the original SEC filing here.
The shareholders own SCO obviously. Canopy Group and Ralph Yarro are the big guys. Here are the major owners:
0 104746903007344/a2104670z10-ka.htm
The following table sets forth, as of November 30, 2002, the number of shares of the common stock held of record or beneficially by each person who held of record, or who had the right to acquire shares within 60 days, or was known by us to own beneficially, more than 5% of the Company's stock, and the name and holdings of each director and named executive officer and of all executive officers and directors as a group.
The Canopy Group, Inc. 5,318,494 46.2%
John R. Wall 800,000 6.9%
Ralph J. Yarro, III 5,388,669 46.8%
Steve Cakebread 42,292 *
Edward E. Iacobucci 57,500 *
Darcy Mott 5,318,831 46.2%
R. Duff Thompson 22,500 *
Thomas P. Raimondi, Jr. 47,500 *
Darl C. McBride 0 *
Robert K. Bench 281,855 2.4%
Sean Wilson 0 *
Chris Sontag 0 *
Opinder Bawa 20,833 *
All Officers and Directors as a Group (11 Persons)
5,835,591 50.7%
SEC filings are your friend: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542/00
8 months? 8 months? SCO will be lucky if IBM lets them go in under 8 months. I say greater then 5 years before all the appeals, counter appeals, counter-counter appeals and so forth. My guess is the winner is going to be the one with deeper pockets no matter how long this goes.