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Suggesting: 'SCO needs to focus more on the profitable legal case
against Linux, and less on Unix'.
BayStar asked 20 million dollars back.
 
You do not believe this, really the limit...
 
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/bizte [...] index.html
 
JP

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"Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c6c556$2re8$1@news.wplus.net...
> Suggesting: 'SCO needs to focus more on the profitable legal case
> against Linux, and less on Unix'.
> BayStar asked 20 million dollars back.
>
> You do not believe this, really the limit...
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/bizte [...] index.html
 
<quote>
An SCO official said BayStar still hasn't responded to the company's
repeated efforts to discuss the falling out. "We are certainly interested in
working out our differences," SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said.
</quote>
 
Translation: "Oh please, please, big daddy, don't whip us anymore. We'll
gladly swallow it." :-)
 
<quote>
BayStar, which specializes in making private investments in publicly held
companies, arranged a $50 million infusion for SCO last fall. The Royal Bank
of Canada contributed $30 million of the financing. The Royal Bank hasn't
revealed what it will do if BayStar abandons SCO.
</quote>
 
<quote>
The public strife is unusual for BayStar, a low-profile investment firm
founded in 1998 by former bankers Lawrence Goldfarb and Steven Lamar. Since
its inception, BayStar has invested $745 million in about 160 companies,
including XM Satellite Radio Inc. and Roxio Inc.
</quote>
 
Lawrence Goldfarb? I've heard of the guy, he's one of the big Jewish
Canadian billionaires. The Royal Bank of Canada is also involved. So this
entire fiasco is being financed by Canadian money-mavens, huh?
 
    Yousuf Khan

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On a sunny day (Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:30:25 GMT) it happened "Yousuf Khan"
<news.tally.bbbl67@spamgourmet.com> wrote in
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>
>Lawrence Goldfarb? I've heard of the guy, he's one of the big Jewish
>Canadian billionaires. The Royal Bank of Canada is also involved. So this
>entire fiasco is being financed by Canadian money-mavens, huh?
>
>    Yousuf Khan
Looks like a Jewish plot to me ;-)
JP
 
PS Do I hear a helicopter?
Oh my

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"Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >Lawrence Goldfarb? I've heard of the guy, he's one of the big Jewish
> >Canadian billionaires. The Royal Bank of Canada is also involved. So this
> >entire fiasco is being financed by Canadian money-mavens, huh?
> >
> >    Yousuf Khan
> Looks like a Jewish plot to me ;-)
> JP
>
> PS Do I hear a helicopter?
> Oh my
 
Probably more likely red & white helicopters that are about 40 years old and
held together with duct tape. (Badap-badap, ooh yeah, yet another easy jab
at Canada's armed forces.) :-)
 
    Yousuf Khan

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Yousuf Khan <news.tally.bbbl67@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> "Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> PS Do I hear a helicopter?
>  
> Probably more likely red & white helicopters that are about 40 years old and
> held together with duct tape. (Badap-badap, ooh yeah, yet another easy jab
> at Canada's armed forces.) :-)
 
'Cept the jab misses.  Tony H is in Canada.  
 
Jan is in the Netherlands.  They plant helicpoters in the
ground with their rotors facing the wind :)   And certainly
cannot fly after dark.  Noise Laws.
 
-- Robert

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On a sunny day (Sun, 25 Apr 2004 04:54:07 GMT) it happened "Yousuf Khan"
<news.tally.bbbl67@spamgourmet.com> wrote in
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>"Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:c6eu6b$v1h$1@news.wplus.net...
>> >Lawrence Goldfarb? I've heard of the guy, he's one of the big Jewish
>> >Canadian billionaires. The Royal Bank of Canada is also involved. So this
>> >entire fiasco is being financed by Canadian money-mavens, huh?
>> >
>> >    Yousuf Khan
>> Looks like a Jewish plot to me ;-)
>> JP
>>
>> PS Do I hear a helicopter?
>> Oh my
>
>Probably more likely red & white helicopters that are about 40 years old and
>held together with duct tape. (Badap-badap, ooh yeah, yet another easy jab
>at Canada's armed forces.) :-)
>
>    Yousuf Khan
>
>
Yes, without duct tape the earth would fly away :-)

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On a sunny day (Sun, 25 Apr 2004 05:35:15 GMT) it happened Robert Redelmeier
<redelm@ev1.net.invalid> wrote in
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>In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Yousuf Khan <news.tally.bbbl67@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
>> "Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> PS Do I hear a helicopter?
>>  
>> Probably more likely red & white helicopters that are about 40 years old and
>> held together with duct tape. (Badap-badap, ooh yeah, yet another easy jab
>> at Canada's armed forces.) :-)
>
>'Cept the jab misses.  Tony H is in Canada.  
>
>Jan is in the Netherlands.  They plant helicpoters in the
>ground with their rotors facing the wind :)   And certainly
>cannot fly after dark.  Noise Laws.
>
LOL

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In article <c6h7dn$ekh$1@news.wplus.net>,  
pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com says...
> On a sunny day (Sun, 25 Apr 2004 04:54:07 GMT) it happened "Yousuf Khan"
> <news.tally.bbbl67@spamgourmet.com> wrote in
> <PvHic.7424$2A3.3923@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>:
>  
> >"Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:c6eu6b$v1h$1@news.wplus.net...
> >> >Lawrence Goldfarb? I've heard of the guy, he's one of the big Jewish
> >> >Canadian billionaires. The Royal Bank of Canada is also involved. So this
> >> >entire fiasco is being financed by Canadian money-mavens, huh?
> >> >
> >> >    Yousuf Khan
> >> Looks like a Jewish plot to me ;-)
> >> JP
> >>
> >> PS Do I hear a helicopter?
> >> Oh my
> >
> >Probably more likely red & white helicopters that are about 40 years old and
> >held together with duct tape. (Badap-badap, ooh yeah, yet another easy jab
> >at Canada's armed forces.) :-)
> >
> >    Yousuf Khan
> >
> >
> Yes, without duct tape the earth would fly away :-)
 
Obviously .nl already has!
 
--  
  Keith

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Jan Panteltje wrote:
 
> Suggesting: 'SCO needs to focus more on the profitable legal case
> against Linux, and less on Unix'.
> BayStar asked 20 million dollars back.
>  
> You do not believe this, really the limit...
>  
> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/bizte [...] index.html
>  
> JP
 
<quote>
The financing raised eyebrows in the high-tech community after BayStar and
SCO confirmed they had been introduced to each other by software giant
Microsoft Corp., which has been losing some customers to Linux. Microsoft
says it has no financial ties to BayStar.
 
 
So "Baystar" is pressuring SCO to attack linux and forget about developing
something as silly as it's own products. Yea I'm sure Microstar, I mean
Baystar has no ties to Microsoft....
--  
 
  Stacey

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Quoth Stacey <fotocord@yahoo.com>:
> Jan Panteltje wrote:
>
>> Suggesting: 'SCO needs to focus more on the profitable legal case
>> against Linux, and less on Unix'.
>> BayStar asked 20 million dollars back.
>>  
>> You do not believe this, really the limit...
>>  
>> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/bizte [...] index.html
>>  
>> JP
>
> <quote>
> The financing raised eyebrows in the high-tech community after BayStar and
> SCO confirmed they had been introduced to each other by software giant
> Microsoft Corp., which has been losing some customers to Linux. Microsoft
> says it has no financial ties to BayStar.
>
> So "Baystar" is pressuring SCO to attack linux and forget about developing
> something as silly as it's own products. Yea I'm sure Microstar, I mean
> Baystar has no ties to Microsoft....
 
Ah, but that's not the set of choices.
 
Baystar is pressuring SCO to actually pursue its lawsuits, as opposed
to grandstanding badly.  And they are, in effect, right.
 
If SCO's to pursue this, it is appropriate for them to do so
competently; if they don't, Baystar is right to chide them for it.
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Christopher Browne wrote:
> Quoth Stacey <fotocord@yahoo.com>:
>> So "Baystar" is pressuring SCO to attack linux and forget about
>> developing something as silly as it's own products. Yea I'm sure
>> Microstar, I mean Baystar has no ties to Microsoft....
>
> Ah, but that's not the set of choices.
>
> Baystar is pressuring SCO to actually pursue its lawsuits, as opposed
> to grandstanding badly.  And they are, in effect, right.
>
> If SCO's to pursue this, it is appropriate for them to do so
> competently; if they don't, Baystar is right to chide them for it.
 
According to this, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/22/repellent_sco/ ,
Baystar is starting to get nervous about McBride's big mouth, and they are
saying that they should just concentrate on the lawsuit. Or is that really
an excuse? It could be an implied acknowledgement of pending defeat, and
they are trying to get back whatever money they can recover from SCO while
they can.
 
Afterall, loudmouthed CEOs shouldn't be enough to lose them this case. Only
the merits of this case will lose them this case.
 
    Yousuf Khan

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Christopher Browne wrote:
 
> Quoth Stacey <fotocord@yahoo.com>:
>>
>> <quote>
>> The financing raised eyebrows in the high-tech community after BayStar
>> and SCO confirmed they had been introduced to each other by software
>> giant Microsoft Corp., which has been losing some customers to Linux.
>> Microsoft says it has no financial ties to BayStar.
>>
>> So "Baystar" is pressuring SCO to attack linux and forget about
>> developing something as silly as it's own products. Yea I'm sure
>> Microstar, I mean Baystar has no ties to Microsoft....
>  
> Ah, but that's not the set of choices.
 
Uh yes it is..
 
<quote>
 
BayStar Capital Management LLC believes SCO needs to hire executives with
more savvy about intellectual property cases and spend less money on its
Unix products
 
>  
> Baystar is pressuring SCO to actually pursue its lawsuits, as opposed
> to grandstanding badly.  
 
No they are pressuring SCO to go after it's "Linux lawsuit" and forget their
unix products, which is what the lawsuit is based on. So now a company that
used to develop software is trying to make -big money- sueing anyone they
can using money from someone who is interested in seeing linux users
attacked. Wonder who is behind this funding? MS gave them 30 million, then
MS "introduced" Baystar to them. No you're right, MS has no interest in
this at all!
--  
 
  Stacey

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Yousuf Khan wrote:
>  
> According to this, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/22/repellent_sco/ ,
> Baystar is starting to get nervous about McBride's big mouth, and they are
> saying that they should just concentrate on the lawsuit. Or is that really
> an excuse? It could be an implied acknowledgement of pending defeat, and
> they are trying to get back whatever money they can recover from SCO while
> they can.
 
I would assume that Baystar had some SCO stock and did not
simply loan them some money.  If that is actually the case,
they might have been better off quietly bowing out and simply
selling off their stock.  As it is, they made headlines instead
and SCO's stock fell 30%.  (Has it recovered since then ?)

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Rob Stow wrote:
> Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>
>> According to this,
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/22/repellent_sco/ , Baystar is
>> starting to get nervous about McBride's big mouth, and they are
>> saying that they should just concentrate on the lawsuit. Or is that
>> really an excuse? It could be an implied acknowledgement of pending
>> defeat, and they are trying to get back whatever money they can
>> recover from SCO while they can.
>
> I would assume that Baystar had some SCO stock and did not
> simply loan them some money.  If that is actually the case,
> they might have been better off quietly bowing out and simply
> selling off their stock.  As it is, they made headlines instead
> and SCO's stock fell 30%.  (Has it recovered since then ?)
 
I think Baystar is too smart to have owned only SCO stock, the real money is
in being a creditor. Afterall, when a company goes bankrupt it's the
creditors that get to pick over the corpse, not the shareholders. In this
case, it's recalling a loan to SCO, not selling off its stock.
 
    Yousuf Khan

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On a sunny day (Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:44:50 -0400) it happened KR Williams
<krw@att.biz> wrote in <MPG.1af62592da2ffb38989797@news1.news.adelphia.net>:
 
>> Yes, without duct tape the earth would fly away :-)
>
>Obviously .nl already has!
We are flying high!
The wind tunnel tests for the JSF are done here....
Was a picture in the paper of that.

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Rob Stow wrote:
 
> Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>  
>> According to this, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/22/repellent_sco/
>> , Baystar is starting to get nervous about McBride's big mouth, and they
>> are saying that they should just concentrate on the lawsuit. Or is that
>> really an excuse? It could be an implied acknowledgement of pending
>> defeat, and they are trying to get back whatever money they can recover
>> from SCO while they can.
>  
> I would assume that Baystar had some SCO stock and did not
> simply loan them some money.  If that is actually the case,
> they might have been better off quietly bowing out and simply
> selling off their stock.  As it is, they made headlines instead
> and SCO's stock fell 30%.  (Has it recovered since then ?)
 
 
Or they could be interested in buying it, make these coments, watch the
price drop then buy it up! All they have to do then is say they changed
their mind and the prices jump back up 30%....
 
Isn't that what the whole SCO thing is, a pump and dump scheme?
--  
 
  Stacey

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In article <c6k3i9$2kci$1@news.wplus.net>,  
pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com says...
> On a sunny day (Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:44:50 -0400) it happened KR Williams
> <krw@att.biz> wrote in <MPG.1af62592da2ffb38989797@news1.news.adelphia.net>:
>  
> >> Yes, without duct tape the earth would fly away :-)
> >
> >Obviously .nl already has!
> We are flying high!
 
Yes, I knew that.  .nl loves high.
 
> The wind tunnel tests for the JSF are done here....
 
You do have a reason for existing?
 
> Was a picture in the paper of that.
 
I'm sure you're complaining about it too.
 
--  
  Keith

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