On Mon, 10 May 2004 16:40:10 -0500 Avi Schwartz disseminated the following:
> > And SCO aka Caldera used to be a perfectly respectable 'nix company. > > Wasn't the RBC investment part of the $50M SCO received from BayStar on > Oct 16, 2003, 7 months into the SCO lawsuit? I bet they thought, just > like BayStar, that SCO will be able to extort billions of dollars from > IBM and Linux licensees, which makes them no better then SCO and > BayStar. Just a bunch of greedy bankers. Actually, worse, it was RBC, IIRC, that initially fronted the whole transaction. > BTW, don't get me wrong, I like Canada (both English and French > speaking parts) and Canadians (ditto). I just don't like SCO investors > :-) There are two industries who are exempt from all rules of karma, ethics, or fair dealing in general: banks and insurance companies. True the world 'round. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 18:31:14 up 4 days, 4:58, 8 users, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.01 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth..." -- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing Fox News
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