Re: Wish

From: Joe Dunning (joe_at_blahblah.invalid)
Date: 10/07/03

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    On 7 Oct 2003 08:30:14 -0700, J. L. Schilling <jlselsewhere@my-deja.com> wrote:
    >joe@blahblah.invalid (Joe Dunning) wrote in message news:<JGpgb.692501$YN5.558643@sccrnsc01>...
    >>
    >> 1. Many ordinary SCO employees (not just the execs) have been able to sell
    >> shares in SCO at prices inflated by SCO's FUD. I don't know if Bela is one
    >> of those.
    >
    >The rise in SCO's stock price is due to the actions of capitalism in the
    >marketplace. If investors believed that SCO's case was only FUD and without
    >merit (and they've certainly heard enough opinions to this effect),
    >the stock wouldn't have stayed up.

    If SCO's statements turn out to be without merit then that is likely not
    capitalism at work but fraud!

    >
    >And no matter what the reason for the rise, you can't blame SCO employees
    >for it. Do you blame Linux or people in the Linux world for the fact that
    >Red Hat and VA Linux once had astronomical prices and valuations?

    Their stock price rises are not comparable, because they were not a result of
    attacks on other people's intellectual property.

    >
    >> 3. Bela sought to portray SCO as a company with many employees supporting
    >> a legitimate product. Again, I don't expect him to post anything
    >> otherwise, but silence is also an option. If he chooses to publically
    >> defend SCO as a company, he must expect people to comment on it and
    >> question his role.
    >
    >What Bela said, and what I said earlier on a similar thread, is a
    >*literal fact*. It's a fact whether or not you believe that SCO is
    >the worst thing to come down the pike since Attila the Hun.
    >Most of SCO's employees are indeed working on software
    >products, both new and existing. New releases of OpenServer and UnixWare
    >have come out recently and the next releases are currently in the pipeline.
    >In addition there are some other completely new products such as SCOx that
    >are in the works.
    >

    Frankly, I think it is irrelevent. I believe the only question that remains is
    whether Canopy will survive this.

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