not to belittle or anything . . .

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Brad, are you in the GR area?  You've got to be talking Cybernet.  You
hear they found his wife?  She was hiding out at her parents' house.
Real original.

Brad De Vries wrote:
| On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:49:01 -0500, dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
|
|>. . . but this is part of a news release i just received:
|>
|>Revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2004 was $10,075,000 as
|>compared to $24,290,000 from the comparable quarter of the prior year.
|>The decrease in revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2004 from
|>the comparable quarter of the prior year was primarily due to a
|>decrease in SCOsource licensing revenue to $120,000 from $10,316,000
|>and from continued competitive pressures on the Company&apss UNIX
|>products and services. The net loss attributable to common stockholders
|>for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2004 was $6,516,000, or ($0.37)
|>per diluted common share, as compared to a net loss attributable to
|>common stockholders of $1,568,000, or ($0.12) per diluted common share
|>for the comparable quarter of the prior year. Included in the net loss
|>attributable to common stockholders for the fourth quarter of fiscal
|>year 2004 were charges related to a restructuring of continuing
|>operations, reductions in force and dispositions of long-lived
|>assets totaling $2,702,000.
|> "Fourth Quarter achievements demonstrate continued progress at SCO,"
|>said Darl McBride, president and CEO, The SCO Group.
|>--
|>dep
|>
|>The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists
|>have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them.
|>                                    -- G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"
|
|
| I hate to rain on what appears to be a happy day for many but this
| news also means that the employees will probably be out of a job soon.
|  I certainly hope that most of the people who are adversely affected
| by this news have somewhere to go besides the welfare lines.
|
| Case in point, a local company was being run by a crook who stole
| millions from everyone and never provided any product/service in
| return.  The feds caught up with him, were coming down hard and
| stopped (not closed) the business.  Now, I was not terribly sad to
| hear that the owner had committed suicide but I was very sad to hear
| about one employee who had just started to build his first house --
| now all he has is a basement and no job.  Or a different employee who
| had just moved his whole family here from a different state -- he
| doesn't know what to do.
|
| Now, I hate SCO as much as the next Linux fan but I want to be sure to
| focus the feelings toward the right person(s).
|
| Brad.
|
| P.S.  Not looking for a flame war here, just expressing some feelings.
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