]
] SCO isn't putting out press releases like it used to.
] Surely it wants you to know that it has cooked up yet
] another way to be loathsome to Linux.
]
] It will expand its licensing program (because it's been
] such a success, I'm sure) and now they will be "offering
] a migration path" so their customers can escape Linux and
] return to proprietary operating systems. Note the plural,
] please. Like, for example, Unix, even a competitor's
] Unix. Some say they mean Microsoft. Well, well. Why ever
] might they want to send their customers to Microsoft?

Speaking of huffing glue...

The latest nonsense from sco

] Taiwanese chipmaker Silicon Integrated Systems will help
] create input/output chips for the Xbox, another
] significant step in the makeover of Microsoft's gaming
] box.

Microsoft selects SIS for Xbox chipset | CNET News.com

] The SCO Group has described the General Public License,
] the cornerstone of much free software, as "unenforceable,
] void or voidable" in its latest court filing.

The level of hysteria in their filings just keeps on growing...

SCO: GPL is unconstitutional

]
] Google is considering holding a massive online auction of
] shares early next year in an initial public offering that
] investment bankers predict could value the internet
] search-engine company at more than $15bn.

Google Said to Consider Online Auction of I.P.O. Shares

] "We can indemnify our users and if anybody's nervous
] about [IBM Unix flavour] AIX or Linux we've got Solaris
] on x86 [32-bit processors] and Solaris in the data
] centre. We run like the wind. We're open. There are no
] down sides."

McNealy's hysteria reminds me of the Iraqi Information Minister during the war...

silicon.com - McNealy: 'I'm thrilled to death SCO can't revoke our Unix licence'

] Linux users outside of the Fortune 1000 cannot buy the
] software license The SCO Group Inc. has been offering
] since August as a way to protect themselves against legal
] action, the company confirmed Tuesday.
]
] "We're trying to execute on this licensing plan (by)
] really starting to deal with the very top players and
] working our way down," said Blake Stowell, a SCO
] spokesman. "After the company has rolled this out to the
] Fortune 1000 and we're satisfied with how the program is
] going ... we'll then roll it down to small to medium
] businesses."

WTF?!

InfoWorld: SCO license currently for biggest users only: October 22, 2003: By : Platforms

]
] BayStar Capital entered the open-source spotlight last
] week with its $50 million investment in the SCO Group,
] which is embroiled in legal wrangling over Linux and Unix
] with IBM and Red Hat. What the companies didn't say so
] loudly, though, is that $30 million of BayStar's
] investment in SCO was from the Royal Bank of Canada,
] according to a Thursday regulatory filing with the U.S.
] Securities and Exchange Commission. BayStar itself
] invested the remaining $20 million.

Weird...

News: Royal Bank of Canada invests in SCO

] "If and when it is proven their claims are correct, then
] that is a different matter. At this point for SCO to
] threaten invoices on a product they have not proven to own
] is nothing short of extortion," said one anonymous
] reader. "The real reason they continue to stymie, balk
] and otherwise carry on with nonsense is they know they
] have no valid case. It is their hope they can find an
] appropriate court environment to hijack Linux."

Extortion is the word...

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com | McBride: Investment strengthens SCO's IP fight

My landline rang yesterday morning ... was someone conducting a survey on domain registrars. So rather than hang up on them, I said "ok."

It became fairly clear that I was on their list because I had transferred a domain away from v$/nsi in the past few months (gloop.org -- sort of a long story why I hadn't moved it sooner). So

I took the opportunity to stick it to v$/nsi -- "No, I didn't switch just because of price and even if their price were competitive, I still wouldn't switch back."

Big question: who paid for this survey? v$/nsi? The corporate raiders who just bought nsi from v$?

blah blah blah

SCO extends Linux licence offer