Arrgh. According to this article at Computerworld, SCO is now printing money. Almost, anyway. Looks like the following shady transaction occured on the market recently:

Canopy Group (SCO’s parent company, a holding company), owns both SCO and Vultus. SCO prints issues more stock and buys Vultus from Canopy, and then turns around and sells it on the market for approximately a $2 million profit.

Sound like a shell game? Yeah, I wish I could move money from one pocket to another like that - put a fifty in one pocket, move it to the other one, and come up with a c-note. Just makes me sick - in the meantime, both SCO and Vultus have employees at some level who are getting screwed. Anyone have any other stories like this?

Got this video on ArsTechnica’s OpenForum. Some twit decided that he’d just take up his brand-new chopper without his instructor around. Hilarity Ensues.

WTF does that mean? I’m sitting in the bathroom at work, and I notice this on the ass-gasket package on the wall. “Provided by the management for your convenience.” Hahaha. I can imagine it now, the upper management of my company all sitting in a board room….

“OK, fellas, we have got to get better quality ass-gaskets for the guys over in Santa Clara. Seriously. Forget this new product crap, or getting the stock price up… these guys are facing a HYGIENE DILEMMA!!!”

Scott, thanks for the ass-gaskets. Me and the guys appreciate it.

Eric S. Raymond has a detailed blow-by-blow of the pedigree of the code in question here, for those who give a crap anymore.

There’s been a lot of talk about how Sun Microsystems is going downhill, is going to be acquired, etc. This article makes some good points, and helps to put some clarity on the situation. The bottom line: Sun’s been written off before, and it prevailed.