Friday, July 25, 2003 |
17:28 - Paranoid conspiracy theory
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Chris brought this one to my attention.
About three days ago, SCO-- the UNIX vendor that has been suing IBM over its use of Linux, in one of those easily recognizable end-of-life intellectual-property-hoarding death-throes-- announced the acquisition of a company called Vultus, Inc. under terms that were not disclosed.
One of the investors in SCO is a company called the Umbrella Corporation-- er, excuse me, the Canopy Group.
Vultus, Inc.-- a company that "has developed tools for creating Web-based applications" and presumably is a leading supplier of polysyllabic words and other strategic business solutions-- is wholly owned by the Canopy Group, and shares their building.
Now, as Chris noted: What better way to siphon money out of a dying subsidiary company in a clandestine end-game than to have it buy a company that you wholly own?
...Naaaahhh.
UPDATE: Well, well.
As Chris says, the best part is how SCO says that their acquisition of Vultus is a "good match" for their UNIX business-- while Vultus' web-development software is Windows-only.
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