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Yup. SCO needs more (law)suits, definitely. Anything to drain their cash reserves faster and put them out of our misery.<br><br>Check <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.Groklaw.net">www.Groklaw.net</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> for the latest details. Be patient, it's getting slammed. <p></p><i></i>

Here's a good article on how it relates to their bottom line:<br><br> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2004/mft04 ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br>I just don't understand how they can possibly hope to stay in business long enough to see any of this money they are after (and that assumes they actually win any of their cases).<br><br> <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><br>Real Geeks don't make there own backups. They accept it as karma and move on. </p><i></i>

The hypothesis is not that they're trying to stay in business long enough to collect, but that they're trying to buoy the stock price long enough for the execs to sell their equity in the company.<br><br>It's called a "pump 'n' dump" in Wall Street terms. <p></p><i></i>

Oh, this is bad, so bad. <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.opensource.org/halloween/hal ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>It's an internal (infernal?) SCO memo that makes it clear that Microsoft was behind the $100 mil that SCO got from Baystar and RBCanada to fund all these lawsuit shennanigans.<br><br>Oops.<br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :bounce --><img src=http://www.thzclan.com/forums/images/sm ... bounce.gif ALT=":bounce"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> Die SCO, die!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :bounce --><img src=http://www.thzclan.com/forums/images/sm ... bounce.gif ALT=":bounce"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

This just keeps getting better. <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,15 ... sp">Here's a link to a 3-page article</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> on these two suits, specifically, and how they are affected (or not) by other SCO litigation elsewhere. <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>"You now have a little company suing four immense companies in different places on very different claims and supposing that it can take all of this on at once. My advice to potential and/or existing Linux customers who might be worried about being sued by SCO is that the lesson here is that your greatest danger of that is to be a SCO customer."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :bounce --><img src=http://www.thzclan.com/forums/images/sm ... bounce.gif ALT=":bounce"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>