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Media Coverage Since the August 10th Ruling
Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 02:02 AM EDT

Part of what Groklaw is doing is making an historical record of the SCO litigation. Since the August 10th ruling by Judge Dale Kimball that found that Novell did not transfer the Unix and UnixWare copyrights to Santa Cruz Operation in the 1995 Asset Purchase Agreement, there has been a flurry of media coverage. For the record, then, I thought it might be useful to collect it all in one place and just for interest's sake put it in a table along with the stock price on the day the coverage appeared.

Some of it is very good. Some of it is quite funny. My favorite is the headline, "Linux Users Uneasy at Ruling." Was that between the dancing and the whoops? Maybe it's the champagne, but I don't remember it at all. So to you historians someday, trust me, it wasn't like that. All the warning articles that Novell might turn on Linux and sue over copyright infringement... well, they can't, I don't believe. Even if they did turn into Mr. Hyde and want to, which they won't. Don't you remember Chris Stone's 2004 speech at the Open Source Business Conference (scroll down to the picture) saying there is no Unix in Linux? That's not even going into everything they filed in SCO v. Novell. I believe we can rely on that, not to mention that no one, including SCO -- even after sorting through every lick of AIX code that humans could produce in the IBM litigation -- could seem to find any infringement to shake a stick at. And heaven only knows they tried like the dickens. So who cares who owns the copyrights? If the copyrights are not being infringed, does it matter? All signs point to no.

All the folks that used to write so much about how SCO would win are mighty quiet now, I must say. Nor did that crowd tip the hat to Groklaw for calling it right. For the most part, they pretend they never wrote those other predictions. Others find it really hard to believe what has happened and some prefer to say that maybe SCO lost, but they shouldn't have or that it's just one small victory in a story still to play out fully. Lots of warnings about this story not being over yet. There do seem to be forces eager to prolong an anti-Linux stench in the air, in the face of all logic, not to mention reality.

One article from Daniel "What SCO Wants, SCO Gets" Lyons (remember this gem? -- "Linux companies face a nasty foe, yet claim they're not worried. They should be.") and one from Rob "SCO Should Win" Enderle (remember: "IBM made a serious mistake in introducing Unix code into Linux without proper notification to — or approval from — SCO, which is the current, documented owner of Unix."), and then they disappeared. Enderle says he "stopped following SCO years ago". I think he's being too modest. Just last summer, he was quoted by AP, Business Week and CMP TechWeb opining about a ruling in the SCO v. IBM case and was described by the last as an analyst who follows the case closely. Lyons opened his article like this, "At long last, the SCO Group's ugly, often farcical legal crusade against Linux appears to be over." Well, say. "At long last"? When did he jump ship? OK. Welcome aboard and all that. Talk about your 180. Paul Murphy was the only one to admit he was wrong, writing "I would have cheerfully bet real money that this would never happen."

Paul McDougall is the new champion chronicler of SCO's agony, with more stories than any other single journalist since August 10, by my count. Either that or he is sticking in my mind for other reasons. Anyway, I don't remember him playing much of a role before, but I can't keep track of everything. Maybe he did and I missed it. But searching for him, I could only find one article from 2003, in September, which began, "In a counterclaim to a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against it by the SCO Group, IBM says SCO violated its intellectual property rights..." Anyway, it does seem like a changing of the guard. And one thing you'll notice is that since SCO's Darl McBride began talking to the media again, the stock price, which had slumped on news of the ruling, began to pick up again, particularly after several stories began appearing that SCO had filed an appeal, which actually it hadn't.

And there are other indications our educational work is still not done. Two articles reported the order as a patent loss for SCO. So, once again, slowly: there are no patents at issue in any SCO litigation, for the simple reason that they don't have any UNIX or UnixWare patents. That's *another* item that they didn't get under the APA in 1995, although SCO lawyers have never disputed that exclusion. How then, a logical mind might inquire, can SCO claim it got everything, lock, stock and barrel? I have never figured that out.

Anyway, the new FUD cloud is that maybe SCO lost this round, but they'll soldier on and one day, when you least expect it, they'll find a way to get Linux after all, or someone will, somehow. In case you enterprise dudes were thinking of switching, someone appears to want you to think there is still a cloud over Linux. I'd say, personally, that it's the most picked over code in the history of software, and it is clean as a whistle. But no one listens to me, which is a shame, because I've called it right from day one. The other thing that I think is clear now is that the smear attack on Groklaw has picked up again.

The stock information is from Google. I am not a stock person, as you know, so that part of the story isn't as interesting to me as the legal and the FUD. When I read conversations like this one on Google SCOX discussion board, I simply marvel and wonder how to get from where I am to where they are. But I know it is part of the story, so for those who like to track such things and for history, here's all the media coverage I could find matched up with what happened with the stock on each particular day. I hope you enjoy it, because it was a lot of work.

************************************

Date Close Volume Media
12-Sep-07 0.60 284,800 Battle Over Linux: When a Win May Not be a Win, Larry Downes, CIO Insight
11-Sep-07 0.72 122,400 SCO denied fast-track copyright appeal, CBR
10-Sep-07 0.71 319,300 SCO's Darl McBride remains defiant, The Inquirer;

Did SCO Get Linux Mob Justice?, Roger Parloff, Legalpad Blog, Fortune [Update: It's 'disappeared', taken down by the "blogger", the 404 page informs you. However, you can still find it here, with all the voluminous comments,, which were corrective of some factual issues in the article.];

No jury for SCO vs. Novell Linux-Watch;

Inside the Mind of the Man Who Tried to Milk Linux, David Kravets, Wired;

Novell's Objections to SCO's Supplemental Jury Instructions Linux Today

8-Sep-07 N/A N/A Dead Company Walking!, Network World;

SCO can't appeal ruling on copyrights yet, Deseret News

7-Sep-07 0.63 28,400 No media coverage.
6-Sep-07 0.65 59,500 McBride says SCO isn't dead yet, despite legal loss ComputerWorld;

SCO Versus Novell Case Still Very Much Alive, Timothy Prickett Morgan, IT Jungle

5-Sep-07 0.63 268,500 No media coverage.
4-Sep-07 0.61 258,700 Microsoft To Acquire Group Chat Platform , Redmond Magazine;

SCO asks judge to reconsider IP revenue decision, Computer Business Review;

IBM Says SCO's legal claims are dead - CBR

31-Aug-07 0.66 504,000 SCO Group’s Top Executive Won’t Surrender in Novell, Linux Battles , Local Tech Wire;

SCO Chief - We're Not Dead, ars technica;

SCO asks judge to fast-track copyright appeal, CBR

30-Aug-07 0.72 1,295,000 SCO Appeals Unix Decision, Hard OCP;

Sberbank (Savings Bank Of The Russian Federation) Chooses SCO's OpenServer 6 to Upgrade Thousands of Servers, SCO press release;

SCO appeals Unix ruling, seeks a second act, John Leitzig, MarketWatch;

Interview with Darl McBride, CEO of SCO, Justin Mann, TechSpot;

SCO CEO McBride Speaks Out Novell, Finances, And Groklaw, Paul McDougall, InformationWeek

29-Aug-07 0.50 374,500 SCO Likely To Appeal Novell Ruling, CEO Darl McBride Says, Paul McDougall, Information Week;

How SCO Helped Linux Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Linux-Watch

28-Aug-07 0.51 291,600 SCO Goes Bust in the Courtroom , Motley Fool
27-Aug-07 0.53 177,900 No media coverage.
24-Aug-07 0.53 269,000 No media coverage.
23-Aug-07 0.57 723,000 SCO Could Face Cash Crunch After Novell Trial , Paul McDougall, Information Week
22-Aug-07 0.46 270,900 No media coverage.
21-Aug-07 0.44 401,800 No media coverage.
20-Aug-07 0.44 512,800 SCO ruling gives a lift to Linux, Australian IT;

Judge's Ruling Signals 'Game Over' for SCO, ADT Magazine;

What is the Truth About Sun and SCO?, CBR;

Ruling against SCO 'small relief' to Linux users, Todd Weiss, ComputerWorld UK;

Countdown starts to SCO v. Novell trial, Egan Orian, The Inquirer;

SCO's Impact MacNewsWorld;

huh? SCO and knowing what I don’t know, Paul Murphy, ZDNet

19-Aug-07 N/A N/A Grokking SCO's Demise, Frank Hayes, ComputerWorld;

Linux Users Uneasy at Ruling, PC World

17-Aug-07 0.38 217,400 SCO Mulls Options After Court Strikes Company's Unix Claims , Paul McDougall, Charles Babcock, Information Week;

Whither SCO?, Sean Michael Kerner, Internet News;

Down To Business: SCO Affair: Time To Take Stock (And A Few Shots), Rob Preston, Information Week;

Business as Usual, Says SCO, PC World;

SCO CEO hints at copyright appeal, Matthew Aslett, Computer Business Review

16-Aug-07 0.38 342,100 SCO CEO McBride "Disappointed" By Novell Ruling, Paul McDougall, Information Week;

Novell Won't Pull a SCO, The Register;

SCO vs. Novell: The Last Word Has Yet To Be Said , Seeking Alpha

15-Aug-07 0.38 776,400 SCO Loses Case, And...? , Redmond Channel Partner;

Ruling a further blow to SCO as it faces an increasingly bleak future, The Guardian;

Podcast: SCO’s nosedive, BTL, ZDNet;

Novell Won't Pursue Unix Copyrights, PC World;

Where does SCO go from here?, BTL, ZDNet;

Court ruling dispels cloud over Linux , eSchoolNews

14-Aug-07 0.37 1,209,700 Judge rules Novell owns Unix copyright, not firm suing, The Canadian Press;

SCO Tumbles As Court Says Novell Controls Unix, Seeking Alpha;

SCO: Going, going, gone?, Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld;

SCO fans? What SCO fans?, InfoWorld ;

Increased Linux Use With SCO's Defeat Predicted, Slashdot ;

To Groklaw's 'Pamela Jones': Get Your Facts Straight, Paul McDougall, InformationWeek ;

SCO stock nosedives after court rulingUtah Daily Herald ;

SCO Group: Mini-Me trying to be Darth Vader, ComputerWorld;

SCO Shares Plummet to 40 Cents on Courtroom Loss to Novell, Walaika Haskins, TechNewsWorld;

SCO explores its options after copyright defeat, Computer Business Review;

SCO loses long-running UNIX case, Out-Law;

Ruling suggests SCO knew it did not own Unix, Computer Business Review;

Rats leave SCO's sinking ship, Nick Farrell, Inquirer;

SCO Doesn’t Own Linux Or “What Happens To Patent Trolls”, CrunchGear;

SCO's estranged relationship with Linux, IT PRO;

Judge Kimball: Novell, not SCO Group, is the owner of Unix copyrights, The Money Times, India;

A Tale of Two SCOs, Michael J. Jordan, Linux Online;

Novell does not want to be the next SCO, InfoWorld

13-Aug-07 0.44 5,968,600 Judge Says Novell, Not SCO, is Rightful UNIX Copyright Owner , Windows IT Pro;

SCO stock drops 72% , TG Daily;

SCO Claim To Unix Dead in the Water, NetworkWorld;

SCO: What Difference Did It Make?, Rob Enderle, IT Business Edge;

Investors bailing on SCO stock, SCOX plummets, Ryan Paul, ars technica;

The Dog Fight Over Linux, Rob Preston, InformationWeek;

SCO loses major court ruling in UNIX lawsuit, TechRepublic;

SCO loses ruling on Unix copyrights, Electric News, Ireland;

Legal Ruling Removes Open-Source Cloud, CNNMoney;

SCO Thwarted In Unix Decision, WebProNews;

Judge rules that Novell not SCO owns UNIX copyrights, Ovum;

SCO blow in copyright fight (and musical nukes), ComputerWorld;

Novell Sold Code To SCO, Retained Copyright; Game Over?, InformationWeek;

Novell's Victory Over SCO Could Have Downside For Linux Users, InformationWeek;

SCO Suit Bites the Dust, Novell Gets Closure, Jennifer LeClair, CIO Today;

Novel Defeats SCO in Unix Copyright Ruling, Digitaltrends;

Legal Battle Over Unix, Open Source Isn’t Over, SCO Warns, Rick Smith, WRAL;

SCO Vows to Fight for Linux Rights, PC World;

SCO 'disappointed' as shares plunge 70 per cent, Ashlee Vance, The Register;

Who owns Linux? Not SCO, Salon;

SCO Shares Plummet In Novell Ruling Aftermath, Paul McDougall, InformationWeek;

Novell shares up after court victory over SCO, Salt Lake Tribune;

Microsoft, Novell and the big SCO ruling, Seattle Post Intelligencer;

Patent Ruling Smacks SCO Group, TheStreet;

Novell defeats SCO in Unix copyright case, ZDNet UK;

Delay in SCO justice gives Microsoft hope, Open Source, ZDNet;

SCO defeat in Linux copyright case, CBR;

SCO set for defeat in Linux case, Nancy Gohring, TechWorld;

SCO: ’Tis But a Flesh Wound, All Things Digital;

An End to the SCO Saga — Maybe, IT Business Edge;

SCO shares dip 71% in light of court findings, Justin Mann, TechSpot;

Judge rules Novel, not SCO, owns Unix copyrights, ComputerWeekly;

SCO loses major court ruling in UNIX lawsuit, Tech Republic

12-Aug-07 N/A N/A International Herald Tribune, Tech, IHT;

A comment about SCO/Novell, Paul Murphy, ZDNet;

SCO PR and voice mail: slipping?, LinuxWorld;

Big 'No' To SCO, Daniel Lyons, Forbes;

Groklaw's Pamela Jones On The SCO Decision, Alexander Wolfe, InformationWeek;

SCO never owned UNIX copyrights, owes Novell 95 percent of UNIX, ars technica

11-Aug-07 N/A N/A Court Ruling Gives Novell Copyright in Unix System, Wall St. Journal;

Another nail in SCO’s Linux lawsuit coffin, BTL, ZDNet;

Novell Owns Unix Copyright, Not SCO Group, Judge Says, Bloomberg;

The Future of Linux Still Dark, 24/7 Wall St.;

SCO's KIA, but what about the rest of the troopers? - Linux-Watch;

For sale: SCO "Got Unix in Your Linux?" T-shirt, CBR;

Novell wins Unix victory over SCO, Egan Orion, The Inquirer;

All over for SCO in Novell case, HTML FIX IT

10-Aug-07 1.56 68,900 SCO Goes Down in Flames, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Linux-Watch;

Judge: Novell owns intellectual property in Linux case, MarketWatch;

SCO loses its claim to Unix copyright Paul Beebe, Salt Lake Tribune

9-Aug-07 1.50 197,700 No media coverage.
8-Aug-07 1.56 92,300 No media coverage.


Here's what it all looked like the quiet month before the ruling:

***********************************

Date Close Volume
7-Aug-07 1.45 60,900
6-Aug-07 1.46 34,800
3-Aug-07 1.47 28,200
2-Aug-07 1.51 55,800
1-Aug-07 1.53 33,300
31-Jul-07 1.48 157,400
30-Jul-07 1.50 134,300
27-Jul-07 1.55 60,700
26-Jul-07 1.51 92,100
25-Jul-07 1.50 185,400
24-Jul-07 1.57 113,700
23-Jul-07 1.63 84,600
20-Jul-07 1.55 135,600
19-Jul-07 1.55 528,800
18-Jul-07 1.40 61,200
17-Jul-07 1.49 87,600
16-Jul-07 1.38 37,800
13-Jul-07 1.36 48,400
12-Jul-07 1.39 370,100
11-Jul-07 1.30 31,700
10-Jul-07 1.33 21,600
9-Jul-07 1.30 24,400
6-Jul-07 1.26 31,500
5-Jul-07 1.32 23,000
3-Jul-07 1.29 61,200


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Corrections here
Authored by: Einhverfr on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 02:15 AM EDT
So PJ can find them

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OT - Non anonymous Off topic here
Authored by: SirHumphrey on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 02:16 AM EDT
Please make links clickable

<a href="http://www.example.com/">Like this</a>

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News Picks Here
Authored by: SirHumphrey on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 02:17 AM EDT

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Volume versus coverage
Authored by: SirHumphrey on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 02:24 AM EDT
Thanks PJ. I was just thinking earlier about what such a linkage would look
like. BRILLIANT work! Great minds think alike.

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Any thoughts on the recent uptrend?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 02:30 AM EDT
The price seems to have been trending up - significantly on a percentage basis -
since the recent rulings.

Especially given Groklaw's coverage, I would have thought it would be obvious
that the judges recent rulings have eviscerated SCO's case. The absolute best
they can possibly look forward to in Novell is keeping their cash, and it is
extremely unlikely they'll get off so lightly. The likely outcome seems to be
they lose everything at this point.

And given the Novell ruling, the IBM case is not going to produce a windfall.

So, any thoughts on why people are paying more for the stock?



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Thanks, it was interesting, but ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 04:39 AM EDT

here's all the media coverage I could find matched up with what happened with the stock on each particular day. I hope you enjoy it, because it was a lot of work.

Thanks, it was interesting. But while the stock market is definitely influenced by unexpected news, it pretty much ignores comment. As you've demonstrated more than once, most media comment on the SCO/Linux situation is uninformed (to put it very politely). Investors who actually have significant money to invest learn not to take press comment seriously. (Those who don't lose a lot of money - there's a kind of natural selection process.) Any investor who based decisions on, for example, Mr Enderle's analyses, lost his bankroll years ago, and no longer influences stock prices.

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Reading these 'articles' is hilarious
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 04:39 AM EDT

Either the authors haven't actually bothered to read the rulings, or they are (at best) simply trolling, or (at worst) involved in an unethical pump-and-dump. No reasonable, unbiased observer could come to any conclusion other than that SCO is comprehensively stuffed, that Novell owns all the copyrights in UNIX, and that there is no (protectable elements of) UNIX in Linux.

The only remaining question is how much Novell (and IBM) will be be able to recoup from SCO before they go bankrupt. That's it. Game over. Read the rulings.

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Wall Street Journal coverage
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 05:31 AM EDT
August 11
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118678589019694632.html

Starts with:

A federal court in Utah ruled that Novell Inc., not SCO Group Inc., is the
rightful owner of the copyright in the Unix operating system.

The ruling is a boon to the "open source" software movement and to
Linux, the freely available computer operating system that has become an
alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.

...

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NASDAQ delistiting?
Authored by: csmiller on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 06:11 AM EDT
Unless I'm mistaken, it has been 30 days since SCO's stock fell below $1/share,
which leads to NASDAQ warning SCO that their shares are to be delisted. SCO have
10 days to improve their share price.

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Very cool
Authored by: Thomas Downing on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 07:02 AM EDT
Thanks for the effort PJ, I do appreciate it.

This work very plainly lays out the media guided
industry (and to some extent public) perception
of the SCO story.

Another way of looking at this is how different
media sectors tended to report events: Linux
oriented, Tech print, Tech on-line, Tech daily
Tech monthly, Finance/Business, General Utah,
General non-Utah.

A mammoth work would be to do the same thing for
all the major dates in the SCO saga, and possibly
as a continuous record during the heyday of Darl,
Chris, et alia running their mouths.

Could be a masters thesis here for someone.

---
Thomas Downing
Principal Member Technical Staff
IPC Information Systems, Inc.

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My Favorite Title is
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 07:35 AM EDT
"Dead Company Walking" by John Obeto in Network World. That's the
best by far, until someone gets to write "Sco is Dead!" sometime real
soon now.

JR

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The very best of PJ
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 08:31 AM EDT
Thanks, again & again & again.....

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  • ?! - Authored by: Tim Ransom on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 08:54 AM EDT
Don't believe the media
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 08:52 AM EDT
In a scrapbook somewhere, I have a news clipping from 1930 or so. It reports
that a 12 year old boy was "pulled from a pier into the water by a large
fish, while fishing". He was later treated at a local hospital for minor
injuries. The boy was my father, and he was treated for cutting his foot on a
piece of glass. The rest was made up by the reporter.

In the several times I've dealt with the press in my own life, I've consistently
been amazed, amused, or appalled at how wrong they get the simplest aspects of a
news event. The closer I've been to the actual facts of the story, the more
wrong I know they are. I'm surprised I still trust ANYTHING they say.

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Wired coverage
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 09:32 AM EDT

Wired has an interview with Darl McBride, titled "Inside the Mind of the Man Who Tried to Milk Linux". Judging by the picture, the past few years have not been kind to him.

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Media Coverage Since the August 10th Ruling
Authored by: TemporalBeing on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 09:35 AM EDT
Perhaps this Dilbert Comic gives us some insight into SCO?

Thanks to the wonderful insight into companies of Scott Adams.

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People's Brain's = Unable To Pick Stocks = Russian Roulette
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 09:52 AM EDT
Anyone who buys any stock (other than an inside trader) is simply fooling
themselves if they think they have the RIGHT SKILL to pick winners. The whole
idea of the stock market is to buy low and then later, sell high to SUCKERS. And
it is all about timing the buy or the sell at the RIGHT time. And of course
every investor sees the other investors as the suckers.


But if anyone wants to understand the whole game then read three books;
afterwards, when you know the market is Russian Roulette then read the fourth to
know what to do instead:

Book A: Money Logic by Moshe Arye Milevsky and Michael Posner

Summary: Anyone flipping a coin 10 times can easily flip 5 heads; NO SKILL
REQUIRED. To show skill one would need to consistently flip NINE HEADS (or
tails) out of TEN. Anything less than NINE = NO SKILL (Read the book to get a
total understanding)

Book B: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas
Taleb

Summary: Over the last 50 years, 50% of the gain of the S&P 500 has happened
on ONLY NINE DAYS. Which means that the stock market is TOTALLY UNPREDICTABLE.
(Despite what 7807 book authors on investing tell people - including the Motley
Fools).

Book C: Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can
Help Make You Rich by Jason Zweig

Summary: Investors who read Book A and Book B; more often than not will then
pretend that what Book A and Book B demonstrates - is not really true and will
play Russian Roulette Stock Investing. It is all about the brain and FRAMING.

Book D: Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and
Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin

Summary: This along with the other three books will help anyone plot a financial
course that is not suicidal.

N.B. The role of stock brokerages and their employees (brokers) is to produce as
much FUD as possible. The role of the business media is to produce as much FUD
as possible. The role of mutual fund companies is to produce as much FUD as
possible. The stock market needs to be called the FUD MARKET.

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Linux Users Uneasy at Ruling
Authored by: cmc on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 10:42 AM EDT
"My favorite is the headline, "Linux Users Uneasy at Ruling." Was
that between the dancing and the whoops? Maybe it's the champagne, but I don't
remember it at all."

I think that's an accurate headline. The text of that article may have been
rubbish, but I would bet good money that the headline is accurate. It just
doesn't say *which* Linux users. I think it's safe to say that EV1, for
example, is uneasy at the ruling, now that they've learned they payed millions
of dollars for literally nothing.

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The application software is not mine.
Authored by: AJG on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 11:28 AM EDT
I do system and network support for several VARs. I have discussed migration
(the Xenix systems I had to shut down in 2000 I put on Linux, ironically Caldera
Linux).

One of the VARs has gone to Red Hat Linux, but all the older systems are still
on SCO. They stay SCO even when the equipment is upgraded, because of the cost
to relicense the database engine. The database people consider this a new sale.

This has also kept some systems on Windows.

Another VAR's product depends on the SCO development package being on the
client's machine for remote compile of instrument interfaces. His product would
require significant rewriting for Linux.

The biggest threat to SCO systems is hardware failure. Compatibility with forced
hardware upgrades is the main problem should SCO go south.

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Larry Downs article quite interesting
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 03:21 PM EDT
This article advocates abolition of copyright for source code. Of course, such
a move would have the effect of abolishing GPL. Might be worth paying close
attention to what the lawmakers are up to...

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PJ: "I am not a stock person"
Authored by: Yossarian on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 03:29 PM EDT
Which makes you much more reliable than the "experts".
Like a Zen expert, you got it right because you did
not put your ego into it.

Anyway, I had read your opinion, bought IBM long,
sold SCO short, and I am very happy with the results.

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Rudy "Murphy" isn't Irish
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 07:53 PM EDT
He doesn't have real humility and he doesn't have the "gift of gab".
He still thinks that tSCOg has contract claims against IBM and is going to ream
them on it. And he has said so in a recent "column". The very one
where he claimed that he was mistaken. This is how honest and humble he is.
OK, maybe he's just aggressively uninformed...

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Media NON-Coverage Since the August 10th Ruling
Authored by: FUDbar on Thursday, September 13 2007 @ 10:39 PM EDT
Lovely chart, PJ!

If only the media masters would put half as much effort to do research as you
have here, the world would be better informed and FUDless, if you forgive my
expression ;)

Anyways, kudos for the energy, passion and dedication!

Journalists out there, take heed!

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