SCO "Clowns" banned from OSS conference.
From: FyRE (FyRE_at_toktik.demon.ku.oc.x)
Date: 03/22/04
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:57:02 +0000
Heh! Seems that Darl and his travelling band of performing "freaks for
hire" are no longer considered sensible enough to perform their little
dance at at least once business conference any longer ;-) They even
made a desperate attempt to bribe their way in, but $40,000 wasn't
enough to do the trick. I'm only surprised it's taken this long for
organisers to ban them from spewing blatant lies at every opportunity.
It's become much worse over the past couple of weeks as their stock
price has been doing an admirable impression of the Titanic - it's
ass-end up, and everyone can see where it's headed ;-)
http://news.com.com/2009-1088-984352.html?tag=nefd_rndm
SCO an unwilling no-show at conference
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If there was any doubt about the extent of the SCO Group's pariah
status, the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco should
dispel it.
Much attention at the two-day conference was focused on SCO's attack
on Linux, which the company argues infringes on its Unix intellectual
property. But SCO was neither a sponsor nor a speaker at the show.
The absence wasn't a coincidence. SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride was
invited, then uninvited, when conference organizers reconsidered.
"We thought early on that SCO has a story to tell and we should let
them speak," said Matt Asay, the conference's organizer. After SCO
accepted, though, Asay had second thoughts. "As I was driving home, I
was thinking, 'Why are we inviting a circus show to the conference?'"
At that point, SCO offered $40,000 to become a platinum sponsor, SCO
spokesman Blake Stowell said. That was even more than the $30,000 that
sponsor and Linux fan IBM paid, Asay confirmed.
But the conference organizers wouldn't budge. "The way they've
conducted the case in public does fit the circus sideshow mentality,"
Asay said. "This is a serious business conference. It needs to be
conducted in a serious manner."
Asay didn't exclude SCO because he wanted a "rah-rah for open source"
conference, despite his day job as director of Novell's Linux Business
Office, he said. Microsoft was invited, he pointed out, and it
sponsored the show and gave several speeches.
(March 18, 2004)
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