Form 10-Q for SCO GROUP INC

SCO ^ | 09/15/03 | SCO

[Salo]

I may have botched a few dots out of the cleanup. Anyway - a lot of grist for the mill.

[Salo]

Pinging the Penguin Pinger

[Salo]

Pinging interested parties.

[rdb3]

The Penguin Ping.

Wanna be Penguified? Just holla!

Got root?

[PAR35]

Thanks for posting this. It was an interesting read.

[jimkress]

A waste of FR bandwith. In this case, an exceprt would have been the preferred method.

As to SCO, I've seen more interesting things in used kleenex.

[Nick Danger]

Form 10-Q

You left out one of the more interesting parts.

(11) SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMERS

During the three months ended July 31, 2003, Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) accounted for approximately 25 percent of total revenue and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (‘Sun”) accounted for approximately 12 percent of total revenue.  During the nine months ended July 31, 2003, Microsoft accounted for approximately 16 percent of total revenue and Sun accounted for approximately 12 percent, of total revenue.

Here is a company whose alleged "business" is selling an aging UNIX variant through a reseller channel. Yet its top two customers are Microsoft and Sun.

While many have noticed that SCO's current anti-linux activities benefit Microsoft and Sun far more than they benefit SCO or its customers, and others have speculated that Microsoft and/or Sun were operating secretly behind the stage, no one could prove such a thing.

Now we can.

In addition to these rather obvious transactions, we also know that a venture capital firm in which a Mr. William Gates is a significant investor has quietly passed the 5% ownership level in SCO, triggering a report to the SEC to that effect. These SCO shares were not purchased in the market, but in the form of private placements of newly-issued shares direct from SCO.

Mr. Gates is both corporately and personally shoveling cash into SCO, while that company engages in activities which are quite beneficial to Microsoft, but almost guaranteed to destroy SCO. Other shareholders in SCO are going to have a Hell of a lawsuit when this is over.

We are going to have some interesting times as this unfolds.

Gates is creepy. This isn't even business; this is thuggery. No wonder all his minions act like thugs. The whole corporation is a thug.

[Bush2000]

While many have noticed that SCO's current anti-linux activities benefit Microsoft and Sun far more than they benefit SCO or its customers, and others have speculated that Microsoft and/or Sun were operating secretly behind the stage, no one could prove such a thing. Now we can.

Wow. Talk about a geeeeeenius. This isn't news, Nicky. Linux zealots have known for months about MS's license from SCO...

[Bush2000]

Gates is creepy. This isn't even business; this is thuggery. No wonder all his minions act like thugs. The whole corporation is a thug.

If it's illegal, Nicky, call da gubmint. But as we both know, it ain't. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Keep trying. You're providing good entertainment for the folks in the cheap Linux seats...

[Coral Snake]

I Think Mr. Danger is quite serious on what he posts. I am the Linux user who provides the ENTERTAINMENT around here at least according to your trolling trio. And now we have SCO counterfeiting their own stock just like Microsoft.

CSBITA!!!

It must be one of the seven wonders of the modern world that the stock market even holds together at all with all this stock watering and counterfeiting STILL going on.

[Coral Snake]

As usual you BUTCHERED Mr. Danger's post and didn't get the true gist of it at all at all so I will explain it to you in own "entertaining" way. He is essentially saying that SCO is COUNTERFEITING ITS OWN STOCK and passing on to a BILL GATES AND MICROSOFT FRONT hiding behind a "venture capital firm" in return for M$ cash to continue this three ring circus of FUD and pump 'n' dumping.

[Salo]

Inadvertent: I did a c+p on the whole thing. Must have cleaned up a bit more than I thought.

You left out one of the more interesting parts.

[Salo]

I *despise* excerpted articles. I will do it where FR management *requires* it.

A waste of FR bandwith. In this case, an exceprt would have been the preferred method.

[Golden Eagle]

If your little trenchcoat man is supposedly an expert on thugs, would this obviously not be the comment of one?

"If somebody sues you, you change the algorithm or you just hire a hit-man to whack the stupid git."

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl541224082d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.44.0208111553010.1233-100000%40home.transmeta.com

Sure sounds like one to me. Especially if he's a foreigner talking about American businessmen.

[Coral Snake]

I was recently schooled that the "hit-man" refered to here refered to an AMERICAN company with a mount everest of software patents to use against SCO. (Think IBM or HP here, not Mafia.)

[Bush2000]

I was recently schooled that the "hit-man" refered to here refered to an AMERICAN company with a mount everest of software patents to use against SCO. (Think IBM or HP here, not Mafia.)

Pretty damned immature for Torvalds to throw around that kind of rhetoric, if indeed you even accept that spin.

[Bush2000]

I Think Mr. Danger is quite serious on what he posts.

Seriously wrong.

I am the Linux user who provides the ENTERTAINMENT around here at least according to your trolling trio.

Want to entertain me? Play dead.

And now we have SCO counterfeiting their own stock just like Microsoft.

Using that terminology -- "counterfeiting their own stock" -- on a continual basis doesn't imbue it with a shred of reason.

[Coral Snake]

Okay, First it looks like we will have to start with the usual.

From the Free Republic posting policy:

NO personal attacks!!!

Quiet you!

Secondly if a company over issues its own stock in order to do "legal" dirty dealing or to get around the law in some other way it is COUNTERFEITING IT in my book.

[Nick Danger]

Especially if he's a foreigner

This is not a hate site, OK? We have enough trouble with the media trying to paint us all as hate-mongers without you tossing around xenophobic crap. Lose it.

[Nick Danger]

If it's illegal, Nicky, call da gubmint. But as we both know, it ain't. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I already knew that about you. But thanks for telling everyone else, in case they didn't know.