IBM Probes Microsoft's Relationship with SCO

[Joshua Zeidner]

Jerry,

  I don't think so.  The real history of american business is 1) innovation,
2) expansion, 3) overbearance, 4) bloat, 5) death.  Microsoft is at stage
five.  Gates was on CSPAN tonight.  He looked really nervous, not his usual
self assured smugness.  As far as Gates billions: today money is way more
leveraged and detached from reality than ever.  Wealth on paper means
nothing.  Do you think that Gates can just cash out his stock and buy a
south american country or something?  Microsoft is not all powerful.  The
profitable moves that they have available to them are diminishing by the
day.  And the public( and our government ) is starting to catch on to their
tricks.  Remember in the first anti-trust trial, one of the key prosecutors
had NEVER USED A COMPUTER BEFORE.  We have come a long way from those
days...

  Money will buy time... but it wont buy the truth.  Microsoft is done.
Have some faith in your country...



> >
> > Looks like the same old blah to me. If m$ was in .ca.us it might be
> doing
> > hard time due to the 3 strikes laws, but barring that it'll be business
> as
> > usual because the minor legal annoyances don't outweight the ill-gained
> > income or market share.
>
> yep. m$ can't be nailed -- ever. they have too much money and we all know
> that
> money talks everything else walks in our system of justice.
>
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
> >
> > > also Financial Times had a good article yesterday.
> > >
> > > BTW- Bill Gates + Google CEO will be on C-SPAN 2 tonight... should be
> > > good.
> > >
> > > On 2/24/06, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz at cox.net> wrote:
> > >> On Friday 24 February 2006 03:22 am, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> > >>> there are definately major things happening in this space:
> > >>>
> > >>> http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/opensource02162006.htm
> > >>>
> > >>> Also microsoft is facing a brand new anti-trust lawsuit.  I think
> this
> > >>
> > >> one
> > >>
> > >>> will sink the ship.
> > >>
> > >> please provide a link or links for this assertion.
> > >>
> > >>> On 2/24/06, Technomage <technomage-hawke at cox.net> wrote:
> > >>>> ran across this in a linux based newsgroup.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> looks like interesting things are happeneing.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> --------------- Forwarded message (begin)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Subject: IBM Probes Microsoft's Relationship with SCO
> > >>>> From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups at schestowitz.com>
> > >>>> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:15:50 -0700
> > >>>> Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy
> > >>>>
> > >>>> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260537_msftibm23.html
> > >>>>
> > >>>> IBM demands documents detailing Microsoft's rivalry with Linux
> > >>>>
> > >>>> "IBM Corp. is seeking to compel Microsoft Corp. to hand over
> internal
> > >>>> documents detailing its rivalry with the Linux operating system, in
> a
> > >>>> move that could shed new light on the Redmond company's response to
> > >>
> > >> one
> > >>
> > >>>> of its biggest competitive threats."
> > >>>>
> > >>>> "...It's the latest development in IBM's long-running legal dispute
> > >>
> > >> with
> > >>
> > >>>> the
> > >>>> SCO Group. SCO, a software company based in Lindon, Utah, has filed
> > >>
> > >> suit
> > >>
> > >>>> against IBM and other companies, alleging that components of its
> Unix
> > >>>> software were added illegally to Linux.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Microsoft isn't a party to the litigation, and it says it's not
> > >>
> > >> involved.
> > >>
> > >>>> But
> > >>>> that assertion has been under scrutiny since 2003, when Microsoft
> > >>
> > >> began
> > >>
> > >>>> licensing Unix technology from SCO. Ultimately, the related
> payments
> > >>
> > >> from
> > >>
> > >>>> Microsoft to SCO totaled more than $16 million, or 21 percent of
> SCO's
> > >>>> revenue that year..."
> > >>>>
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