From: "Justin Zygmont" <jzygmont@solarflow.dyndns.org>
> > Keith, there is no product to buy, essentially. This is the action of a
> > company in its death throes that owns some IP and was bought by lawyers.
> > They are trying to milk the assets for anything they can get before the
> > entire company is defunct.
>
> do you know if this is really true, is Caldera (SCO) really doing that
> bad?
Justin, The article referenced commented about SCO Group, nee Caldera,
posted a major loss many times their preceding year's profit. It says
they pulled in a shyster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H<ahem> attorney to protect their
intellectual property rights. It also notes they are in a sad position
internally because they are major Linux contributors. (The BIGGEST giggle
potential here is that THEY might be the ones who posted any possible
infringing code into the kernel. That would rather mess up their IP
rights.)
I have seen this sequence before over the years when a company is going
broke and is desperately trying to salvage something as the investors
melt away. I take it as a signal that SCO is not something to purchase
as the company is likely about to go belly up as far as supporting real
products goes. It'll turn into another "patent holding company" that
litigates its way to success.
{^_^} Joanne
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