SCO Says IBM Hurt Profits

SCO Says IBM Hurt Profits 174

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 11, 2007 @04:20PM from the and-a-bandaid-for-your-knee dept.

AlanS2002 sends in a link from a local Utah newspaper covering the SCO-IBM trial. The Deseret News chose to emphasize SCO's claim that IBM hurt SCO's relationship with several high-tech powerhouses, causing SCO's market share and revenues to plummet. "[A]n attorney for Lindon-based SCO said IBM 'pressured' companies to cut off their relationships with SCO. And 'the effect on SCO was devastating and it was immediate'..." As usual Groklaw has chapter and verse on all the arguments in the motions for summary judgement.

SCO Says IBM Hurt Profits

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Don't forget... (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @04:23PM (#18309734)

... to pay your $699 license fee you cock-smoking tea-baggers.

Re:Infinite variations on a theme? (Score:5, Funny)

by kimvette ( 919543 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @04:28PM (#18309786) Homepage Journal

It is like watching a train wreck, you cannot help but watch.

Except in the case of SCO, the train is heading for a compact car, and we're all rooting for the train.

This will never end (Score:5, Funny)

by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @04:30PM (#18309804) Journal

After they're done with this suit, they will sue IBM for messing up their restrooms, for parking in the wrong spots, for eating greasy food while looking at their legal documents, for IBM laywers not wiping their feet before entering SCO on rainy days, for sneazing colds around, etc. etc. etc.

Re:Almost 5 Years... (Score:5, Funny)

by MarkRose ( 820682 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @04:33PM (#18309836) Homepage

Can we call this one a dead horse and move on?

Nei-ei-ei-eigh!

Re:Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @04:37PM (#18309866)

You forgot a Nyah.

Loser.

So what? (Score:4, Funny)

by ScrewMaster ( 602015 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @05:44PM (#18310280)

SCO Says IBM Hurt Profits

Good.

Re:Well (Score:4, Funny)

by Andy_R ( 114137 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @05:46PM (#18310296) Homepage Journal

"Since when was IBM responsible for SCO's profits?"

Since the day SCO's business plan switched from 'sell stuff' to 'pretend we own patents on IBM's stuff'.

Re:finally (Score:3, Funny)

by Artifakt ( 700173 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @05:47PM (#18310300)

SCO would have been better off tangling with the IRS.

Uhm, what makes you think they haven't?

Re:An interesting question, indeed. (Score:3, Funny)

by phasm42 ( 588479 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @05:51PM (#18310326)

Big businesses do not own massive climate controlled rooms filled with panties. We hope.

Re:Good (Score:2, Funny)

by hedwards ( 940851 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @06:10PM (#18310452)

I don't know that the claims are fake, perhaps they are just really, really protective about showing the judge their evidence.

Six words all employees of SCO should learn... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @06:20PM (#18310524)

... and know intimately:

Would
You
Fries
With
That?

Re:Wait, what? SCO?! -- what year IS this, anyway? (Score:4, Funny)

by z3d4r ( 598419 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @06:32PM (#18310630)

Your posting to slashdot, and u have a 4 digit uid. You will never have children, as that requires interaction on an intimate level with a member of the opposite sex.

More likely your home made robotic shark with freakin lasers will read about the SCO debacle in soviet russia as they welcome their new beowulf cluster overlords running linux.

Re:Wait, what? SCO?! -- what year IS this, anyway? (Score:4, Funny)

by Seumas ( 6865 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @06:39PM (#18310680)

Screw you, I have PLENTY of intimate interactions with members of the opposite sex! Sure, they usually aren't aware of it, but still . . . :P

The 3 Stages of SCO Business Plan... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @07:16PM (#18310930)

So, they started with:
1. License Linux for $699 a-piece
2. ???
3. Profit!!!

Then it turned into:
1. ???
2. ???
3. Profit!!!

And now, finally it's:
1. ???
2. ???
3. ???

Re:An interesting question, indeed. (Score:3, Funny)

by fbjon ( 692006 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @07:21PM (#18310966) Homepage Journal

Big businesses do not own massive climate controlled rooms filled with panties. We hope.
That is Google's second best perk, actually.

Re:Good (Score:5, Funny)

by schon ( 31600 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @08:17PM (#18311290)

It's not like it is going to go up in a puff of smoke once someone sees it.
No, but (to paraphrase Douglas Adams) it might go up in a puff of logic.

actually, let me fix that: s/might/would/

No, the car is heading for the train, with 'tude (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @09:18PM (#18311640)

Can't you just see Darl McBride behind the wheel of a rusted-out Yugo, puttering along, belching blue smoke as the SCOmobile burns more oil than gasoline, continually backfiring, muffler dragging on the pavement, one wheel replaced with a half-sized spare covered in 3" of dust, heading for a railroad crossing where the gates are down, the lights a flashing, the train whistle sounding, and the ground is shaking from the approaching train thundering down the mountain at full speed?

Darl's cackling in a high-pitched voice, completely out of control, "Make your time! All your code are belong to us!" as he approaches the crossing...

Re:Well (Score:3, Funny)

by dcollins ( 135727 ) writes: on Sunday March 11, 2007 @11:26PM (#18312216) Homepage

Clearly you must be a plant by IBM. Please forward your address to SCO so we can sue you for libel or something ASAP.

Re:Wait, what? SCO?! -- what year IS this, anyway? (Score:3, Funny)

by catman ( 1412 ) writes: <`gro.xunilemoh.ttakgoks' `ta' `tsnrojb'> on Monday March 12, 2007 @06:47AM (#18314237) Homepage Journal

I have a 4-digit UID and seven grandchildren, you insensitive clod!

Re:Almost 5 Years... (Score:3, Funny)

by db32 ( 862117 ) writes: on Monday March 12, 2007 @08:40AM (#18314807) Journal

Keep beating it everyone! Candy will eventually come out!

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Don't forget... (Score:0, Funny)

Re:Infinite variations on a theme? (Score:5, Funny)

This will never end (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Almost 5 Years... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah (Score:1, Funny)

So what? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Well (Score:4, Funny)

Re:finally (Score:3, Funny)

Re:An interesting question, indeed. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Good (Score:2, Funny)

Six words all employees of SCO should learn... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Wait, what? SCO?! -- what year IS this, anyway? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Wait, what? SCO?! -- what year IS this, anyway? (Score:4, Funny)

The 3 Stages of SCO Business Plan... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:An interesting question, indeed. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Good (Score:5, Funny)

No, the car is heading for the train, with 'tude (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Well (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Wait, what? SCO?! -- what year IS this, anyway? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Almost 5 Years... (Score:3, Funny)

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