On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 00:01, Arthur Moore wrote: > http://humorix.org/articles/may03/sco.shtml > > this is pretty funny.
The best part: ============= Then, in a stroke of great timing, Caldera went public the week after the Nasdaq bubble started to burst. In spite of this, they managed to double their share price (although they didn't get the 700% launch that previous Linux IPOs enjoyed). So with a pile of cash, and a way-overvalued stock, Caldera decided to look for a decent company with synergy to acquire. They found SCO instead, as the good ones were already taken. SCO sold operating systems for the PC and had almost no marketshare and had bought a dead-end product from Novell (Unixware). Meanwhile, Caldera sold operating systems for the PC and had almost no marketshare and bought a dead-end product from Novell (DR-DOS). So at least there was synergy. In an attempt to further alienate their customer base, Caldera announced that future releases of OpenLinux would actually contain the SCO kernel, because Unix-like kernels are a basic commodity. "This would be like Butterball buying Hormel, and announcing that Spam would now be the official main entree of Thanksgiving dinner," said Dr. Jacob Jacobson, professor of Information Technology Analogies at MIT. When Caldera discovered that its OpenServer line outsold its Linux line 3-2 (no, that's not a ratio, those are actual sales figures), they changed their name back to SCO. This brings us to the current situation. After the company's unsuccessful "We're a player, dammit!" campaign caused 10% of their customer base to flee, SCO decided to resort to that time-honored American business tradition, litigation. After all, they had already taken on Microsoft, so they figured they could take on IBM. They sent IBM a letter oozing with legalese that said, "All your AIX are belong to us." After IBM blatantly ignored them, they've decided to take on the entity that actually cost them all of their lost revenue: the customers who failed to buy or even notice SCO/Caldera products, but instead bought a competing Linux product. ============= Go read it, you know you want to. -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix
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