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from: Jeff Shultz
date: 2003-07-29 12:41:46
subject: Re: 1 4 Joe re SCO

From: Jeff Shultz 

Adam Flinton wrote:

>
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,83452,00.htm
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>
> " Trying to make sense of The SCO Group's threat last week to sue any
> Linux user who doesn't buy a Unix license? Forget the threat. Instead,
> look at the announcement SCO made the following day -- the one in which
> SCO said it's now in the Web services business thanks to its acquisition
> of Vultus Inc.
>
> And how did SCO buy Vultus? With newly issued SCO stock, of course --
> stock whose price gets a boost every time the company makes yet another
> wild claim about who it will sue next.
>
> Actually, the Vultus deal is a lot more complicated than that. You
> wouldn't know it from what SCO said last week, but SCO has finally found
> a way to make money -- literally. "
>
>
> Hey Joe you know your complain to the Stock Exchange regulators...? Is
> manipulating stock prices in this way still "ethical"?
>
> Need to raise the stock price so release a load of press releases making
> false claims....isn't that a little "pre-Enron"?
>
> Adam

Yet another notch on my "Stock should not be allowed for purchasing
other businesses" stick.

--
Jeff Shultz

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