Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 22:46:41 08/19/03
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On August 20, 2003 at 01:01:17, Christophe Theron wrote: >SCO is doing a desperate attempt to gain something for some of the copyright >they own on a very very old Unix. This attempt is sponsored by Microsoft. > >After that they are dead. > >The bottom line of this story is that Linux represents such a big threat for >you-know-who that their are trying whatever desperate dirty trick in an attempt >to stop it. > >That is futile. I have a conspiracy theory sans Microsoft: 1. Find an obscure, and superficially plausible, attempt at your company making money from third parties; 2. Make an huge fuss, with threats against the third parties, which gains publicity and drives up the share price; 3. Hope that one of the targets of the fuss buys your company (by offering a premium above the already-inflated share price) to make it go away; 4. Failing that, sell shares at the already-inflated price before the whole edifice collapses. That would be a much surer way of company directors making money for themselves than boring stuff like supervising the developing and selling of a product, and I'm surprised it hasn't been tried more often. (I'm also surprised that the US authorities aren't investigating the "drives up the share price" bit; the mechanism I have specified seems all too easy to do). Alastair
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