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    Originally posted by ph34r
    Not to mention the IPO was a few years ago... but last year the stock price went from literally pennies up thru the roof.
    what caused it to go up, did Sco's linux ... i think caldera do good or something along those lines?

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    Originally posted by solitudedude
    what caused it to go up, did Sco's linux ... i think caldera do good or something along those lines?
    No, they started a lawsuit against IBM for 3 BILLION dollars...

    ...there were plenty of Austin Powers jokes after that one

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    Originally posted by mahdi
    No, they started a lawsuit against IBM for 3 BILLION dollars...

    ...there were plenty of Austin Powers jokes after that one
    im asking, what caused the the pennies to go through the roof you comedian clown face

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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3457823.stm

    Wrath of the geeks? WTF is this guy talking about?
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    Originally posted by lupin_the_3rd
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3457823.stm

    Wrath of the geeks? WTF is this guy talking about?
    he sounds very uninformed & I think he might be smoking some good stuff he is making it sound like all linux users are vandels. I wonder if SCO paid this guy to write this?
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    SCO's Calder IPO

    how much money did they make off Caldera?
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    Dunno, but our sysadm, that was 4-5 years ago was very fonded on 2 distros : RH (we were using 6.2 or something like that) and Caldera. But I never knew about SCO's association with Caldera untill hell broke last year with all those trials and accusations.
    Why is relevant how much money Caldera made?If you ask me , is way less than RH, but this is just a guess.
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    ROFL. Its too much, really. SCO goes after its own customers.

    Looks like SCO's first and best legal targets are their own customers! LOL. It's just too funny. SCO kills me with their hummor and wit. "Buy our products so we can sue you with greater ease." It's got to be the smartest advertising campaign I ever heard of.

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    how much money did they make off Caldera?
    First off SCO is Caldera. Rather Caldera changed its name to The SCO Group Inc.

    If you are referring to OpenLinux then you might want to dig up Caldera/SCO Group's SEC filings. I mean this isn't exactly information people can just come up with off the top of their heads.
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    SCO's suing companies that use Linux now?

    http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5169563.html?tag=nl
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    Originally posted by bosox79
    he sounds very uninformed & I think he might be smoking some good stuff he is making it sound like all linux users are vandels. I wonder if SCO paid this guy to write this?
    That's a understatement. The guy is a idiot. "Preserve Linux"...yeah. Like it is ever going to die now? We are way beyond that.

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    SCO is anyone worried?

    It seems like everytime I look at the news about the SCO situation more and more companies are purchasing a license through SCO.

    Does this worry anyone or not? I mean what would this mean for me as a Fedora user? would I have to pay SCO?

    I know this isn't the first or last post about this, but I am just curious.

    Does this mean I should consider going back to windows?

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    SCO appears to be playing a g***** to make money....while there are many shadowy theories about M$ involvement, all one need do is to run a quick analysis of SCO stock prices from say, three months before they launched this "law suit = money" campaign until today...their stock prices and hence their investors have done well. While I do not agree with their tactics, the sole purpose of a corporation is to make profit for it's investors and SCO is doing this. Am I worried? Absolutely not....thieves and charlatans fear the "light of day" and IMHO it is really only a matter of time before SCO's "house of BS" collapses.....this may take some time though as our legal and political systems are the "best that money can buy"!!


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    SCO

    MR carljenkens. Your post seems just a little bit twee. Just a little bit too twee in fact.

    If you were really concerned about where the SCO train is going, you would be following it all on GROKLAW and you would see that the SCO train is running around on tracks that are getting narrower all the time on a circuit getting smaller smaller all the time. The only thing to watch out for will be when it disappears up its own rear end. It will be spectactular.
    Yes I think you should go back to Windows and not waste the valuable resource here dedicated to Linux users.

    After viewing and reading so many posts on so many websites I am starting to suspect a Microsoft troll here who is pretending to be ooh so faint about it all. Ooh Woe , what am I to do.

    Myself ??? I am backing the Linux world all the way and have done for the past 3 years with no regrets.

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    Re: SCO is anyone worried?

    It seems like everytime I look at the news about the SCO situation more and more companies are purchasing a license through SCO.
    While I realize that it may seem that way, sco actually has very few bogus licenses paid-up, and it's beginning to look like the CA license was accomplished through secretive intent.
    There will always be entities who can't be bothered to know the facts about the sco situation. Some of those will find their cowardice preyed upon by extortionists like sco.
    That's life, and sco is making as much of it as they can in the media.

    Does this worry anyone or not?
    I, for one, am not worried in the least; and think that the propriety of cross-litigation against sco--perhaps in the form of a class-action suit--is growing day by day.
    The Halloween X memo is the latest confirmation of what we already knew, which raises the possibility of further sanctions against microsoft--sanctions which should have been levied in the first place--and other participant individuals and corporations.
    I am convinced that a unified front, and coordinated action, against corporate criminals like gates & company, and McBride, will serve to correct the situation.
    Instead of worrying about the future, if I were you, I'd seek to find a place in forcing that remediation to occur.

    I mean what would this mean for me as a Fedora user? would I have to pay SCO?
    You'll never have to pay sco a cent.
    On the other hand, sco may find themselves returning much of the licensing they have extorted from their timid victims.

    Does this mean I should consider going back to windows?
    Why did you stop using windows in the first place?
    Don't you enjoy greater freedom now?
    Don't you receive greater value for your software dollar spent?
    Why would you give that up?

    The sco-game is being run from Redmond, and the spoils of the war will be control of the substance and flow of information of all types. (Ever wonder why microsoft is dabbling in the news services and Internet access?) After watching gates closely for the past couple of decades, I'm seriously considering the possibility that the boy is a sandwich-short of a picnic; much in the same way that Heinrich Himmler was.

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