Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 02, 2003 02:57 AM
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: It is no stretch of logic to assume that if Novell were due 95% of license fees gained from what SCO can get from the LINUX users that both 95% and 5% could be some very round figures. Hmmm, which side of the mouth is Novell speaking from these days? -The side that is looking at the possibility of getting 95% of all potential LINUX volume (if by some corrupt miracle that SCO would win a suit where SCO is on all the wrong sides of the facts)... -OR the side where Novell has a sole money source based on their own LINUX distribution and other non-unix related IP, etc?
Q: IS Novell working us by using SCO in a good cop/bad cop enforcement play from their postion? 95%? Can they be playing this hand that they are seeing as being dealt from a deck that they have set up? Or is Novell honestly and wholeheartedly in the LINUX camp these days? Let's hope that they are! AND one would hope that any court agreements that they arrive after the fur starts to fly is one that treats SCO as a foe (and not a 95% paying friend)!
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 02, 2003 02:57 AMhttp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1112253,00.a<nobr>s<wbr></nobr> p
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
It is no stretch of logic to assume that if Novell were due 95% of license fees gained from what SCO can get from the LINUX users that both 95% and 5% could be some very round figures.
Hmmm, which side of the mouth is Novell speaking from these days?
-The side that is looking at the possibility of getting 95% of all potential LINUX volume (if by some corrupt miracle that SCO would win a suit where SCO is on all the wrong sides of the facts)...
-OR the side where Novell has a sole money source based on their own LINUX distribution and other non-unix related IP, etc?
Q: IS Novell working us by using SCO in a good cop/bad cop enforcement play from their postion? 95%? Can they be playing this hand that they are seeing as being dealt from a deck that they have set up? Or is Novell honestly and wholeheartedly in the LINUX camp these days? Let's hope that they are! AND one would hope that any court agreements that they arrive after the fur starts to fly is one that treats SCO as a foe (and not a 95% paying friend)!
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