This has never been about SCO, and stolen code, but instead this is just Darl, and his goofy cronies making money. I believe that I read some e-mail where they stated that they were rich, so if you were them, and you had no scruples, and you just wanted to keep the money from all these "investors", you'd just keep whaling away at the courts, and make blanket accusations, and not bother with the consequences because you're getting paid, and that folks, is what is really going on!
This is a fantastic idea!!!! For crying out loud they'll pay for commercials in movies at the theatre, and they'll pay for an ad on a web page, for people to watch their programs, and yet they won't do the same for the programs to be distrubted online???? Man, what a waste!!!! Just imagine the bucks they'll make...the televison show is an after thought as it's the commercials that make them the cash!!! There's a commercial for Motorola, and I can't get enough of it because of the hot chick in it, and now I can't get Motorola out of my mind....so it worked...now imagine the same thing is on every episode of Battlestar Galactica, and instead of just a small fraction of a country, or maybe just one country, you get the WORLD to view your ad!!!! Can you say "Cha-Ching????" Oh, and I've had it pounded into my head since I was a kid to always get the ones with wings, and the absorbant strip for my mother, so Playtex has had netted the advertiser$$$!;-) Ultimately, if the studios embrace the technology, and give their programs to the people for free, or for almost free, then they'll have a much wider fan base, and that adds up to more cash for them. One problem is that it will probably hurt the DVD sales of televison programs, but as with most DVD Programs, they always have extras, and I really like to see that, but on the other hand I think the diminished sales of the DVDs will be paled in comparison by the amount of money that the studios will make from the advertisments, so it all works out in the end:-) Of course, that's my theory...maybe it just makes too much sense.
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This has never been about SCO, and stolen code, but instead this is just Darl, and his goofy cronies making money. I believe that I read some e-mail where they stated that they were rich, so if you were them, and you had no scruples, and you just wanted to keep the money from all these "investors", you'd just keep whaling away at the courts, and make blanket accusations, and not bother with the consequences because you're getting paid, and that folks, is what is really going on!
This is a fantastic idea!!!! For crying out loud they'll pay for commercials in movies at the theatre, and they'll pay for an ad on a web page, for people to watch their programs, and yet they won't do the same for the programs to be distrubted online???? Man, what a waste!!!! Just imagine the bucks they'll make...the televison show is an after thought as it's the commercials that make them the cash!!! There's a commercial for Motorola, and I can't get enough of it because of the hot chick in it, and now I can't get Motorola out of my mind....so it worked...now imagine the same thing is on every episode of Battlestar Galactica, and instead of just a small fraction of a country, or maybe just one country, you get the WORLD to view your ad!!!! Can you say "Cha-Ching????" Oh, and I've had it pounded into my head since I was a kid to always get the ones with wings, and the absorbant strip for my mother, so Playtex has had netted the advertiser$$$!;-) Ultimately, if the studios embrace the technology, and give their programs to the people for free, or for almost free, then they'll have a much wider fan base, and that adds up to more cash for them. One problem is that it will probably hurt the DVD sales of televison programs, but as with most DVD Programs, they always have extras, and I really like to see that, but on the other hand I think the diminished sales of the DVDs will be paled in comparison by the amount of money that the studios will make from the advertisments, so it all works out in the end:-) Of course, that's my theory...maybe it just makes too much sense.