Tin Foil Hat Time
Message ID: 195650
Posted By: diogenese19348
Posted On: 2004-10-20 16:39:00
Subject: Tin Foil Hat Time
Recs: 51
OK, everybody put on your best tin foil hat, and gather at the feet of kindly old Uncle Dio.
A couple of points I have been pondering. What if...
It is obvious by now that SCOX does not have any proof of copying SysV code into Linux, and never did. They have all but admitted it in court.
So since they never did, why would Darl ever have believed there might be precious SCOX IP in Linux?
So what was the plan? Pump and dump? Consider this. None of the people behind this scam - McBride, Sontag, Stowell, even Yarrow, have sold any stock during the run up. I am pretty sure of that, though I have not verified all the Form 4's. We will get back to that in a moment.
Consider something else: Caldera was a company on the verge of bankruptcy, and it was pretty obvious there was no way out. Their Linux line was a failure, and the Unix business they bought was in rapid decline. Not a pretty picture.
I think what happened is this:
A msweasel entered the picture, and offered a way out. Not one to save Caldera mind you, it was past saving. But a way for Canopy to make some money off its demise. I think the whole and only reason for Caldera’s existence past that point was being a FUD machine.
Keep in mind: Canopy has privately held companies. Cash funneled into those will never show up.
Here is the way I see it:
(1) McBride was brought in specifically to execute the plan SCOX is on. There was never any question about the eventual outcome. The demise of Caldera.
(2) McBride was granted his bizarrely high salary because he could not sell stock, and it was the only way to pay him. His stock options were a smoke screen - everybody knew he could never cash in on them.
(3) The pump and dump scam was solely to pay off the existing officers of the dying company. Pay them off and buy their silence that is. They can’t afford to talk, and they get a nice requirement. Think about who cashed in on that. Yeah, the people that would have been burned by this strategy otherwise. The ones that actually made Caldera function when it was still a software company.
(4) Payments to Canopy were made behind the scenes to the privately held affiliates.
(5) SCOX had to be financed publically, everybody (including Baystar) received fair value for their contributions - Outside of SCOX, obviously. Nobody expected to get anything back directly from their “investments”
(6) The plan is going according to schedule. It will morph into Patent War Threats. The opening act was only meant to plant the seed in everybody’s mind that Linux can and will be attacked.
One last thing to consider: There is one unexpected development from Microsoft’s standpoint. It ain’t Slashdot, they knew all about that. It ain’t the developer’s community, they had to know what their reaction would be. The one thing that did not exist, not even in prototype, when this thing started was Groklaw.
I think that scares the death out of Microsoft. So see every pleading dissected. To have a place where the developers, the press, and the lawyers can go to do research. The attacks on Linux will not end with SCOX. I think what is happening with Groklaw now has to do with the fact SCOX’s time is about up, and Microsoft knows it. Grokwars is not a SCOX attack on Groklaw, but a Microsoft one. And I think the ProSco.net initiative is directly related to trying to discredit this type of site. By anybody. It ain’t about Caldera folks. Its about Microsoft. Don’t lose focus.
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Posted By: diogenese19348
Posted On: 2004-10-20 16:39:00
Subject: Tin Foil Hat Time
Recs: 51
OK, everybody put on your best tin foil hat, and gather at the feet of kindly old Uncle Dio.
A couple of points I have been pondering. What if...
It is obvious by now that SCOX does not have any proof of copying SysV code into Linux, and never did. They have all but admitted it in court.
So since they never did, why would Darl ever have believed there might be precious SCOX IP in Linux?
So what was the plan? Pump and dump? Consider this. None of the people behind this scam - McBride, Sontag, Stowell, even Yarrow, have sold any stock during the run up. I am pretty sure of that, though I have not verified all the Form 4's. We will get back to that in a moment.
Consider something else: Caldera was a company on the verge of bankruptcy, and it was pretty obvious there was no way out. Their Linux line was a failure, and the Unix business they bought was in rapid decline. Not a pretty picture.
I think what happened is this:
A msweasel entered the picture, and offered a way out. Not one to save Caldera mind you, it was past saving. But a way for Canopy to make some money off its demise. I think the whole and only reason for Caldera’s existence past that point was being a FUD machine.
Keep in mind: Canopy has privately held companies. Cash funneled into those will never show up.
Here is the way I see it:
(1) McBride was brought in specifically to execute the plan SCOX is on. There was never any question about the eventual outcome. The demise of Caldera.
(2) McBride was granted his bizarrely high salary because he could not sell stock, and it was the only way to pay him. His stock options were a smoke screen - everybody knew he could never cash in on them.
(3) The pump and dump scam was solely to pay off the existing officers of the dying company. Pay them off and buy their silence that is. They can’t afford to talk, and they get a nice requirement. Think about who cashed in on that. Yeah, the people that would have been burned by this strategy otherwise. The ones that actually made Caldera function when it was still a software company.
(4) Payments to Canopy were made behind the scenes to the privately held affiliates.
(5) SCOX had to be financed publically, everybody (including Baystar) received fair value for their contributions - Outside of SCOX, obviously. Nobody expected to get anything back directly from their “investments”
(6) The plan is going according to schedule. It will morph into Patent War Threats. The opening act was only meant to plant the seed in everybody’s mind that Linux can and will be attacked.
One last thing to consider: There is one unexpected development from Microsoft’s standpoint. It ain’t Slashdot, they knew all about that. It ain’t the developer’s community, they had to know what their reaction would be. The one thing that did not exist, not even in prototype, when this thing started was Groklaw.
I think that scares the death out of Microsoft. So see every pleading dissected. To have a place where the developers, the press, and the lawyers can go to do research. The attacks on Linux will not end with SCOX. I think what is happening with Groklaw now has to do with the fact SCOX’s time is about up, and Microsoft knows it. Grokwars is not a SCOX attack on Groklaw, but a Microsoft one. And I think the ProSco.net initiative is directly related to trying to discredit this type of site. By anybody. It ain’t about Caldera folks. Its about Microsoft. Don’t lose focus.
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