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BayStar Sets Lawyers on SCO

Posted by Hemos on from the racking-up-the-billable-hours dept.

myster0n writes "According to The Register: 'SCO's attempts to rescue its relationship with BayStar, its biggest backer, have come to naught. On Friday morning, Eastern time, SCO announced that the stock buyback deal it agreed with the unhappy investor had closed. Two hours and five minutes later, Baystar issued a statement saying that a) no it hadn't and b) we'll see you in court, matey.'" Thanks to The Reg for the write-up.

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  1. Obligatory Simpson's quote... by Anonymous+Writer · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Ha ha!" (Nelson)

    1. Re:Obligatory Simpson's quote... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Ha ha!" (Nelson)

      "Release the hounds!" (Mr. Burns) might be more appropriate.

  2. Baystar is canadian. by Thng · · Score: 4, Funny

    so it should be "we'll see you in court, eh."

    1. Re:Baystar is canadian. by Polkyb · · Score: 4, Funny

      I really can't see what all the fuss is aboot

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    2. Re:Baystar is canadian. by daeley · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now, now, now. There's no point in insulting our neighbors to the North with stereotypes that don't reflect the reality of a richly multicultural society.

      It should be "We'll see you in court, you hosers."

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    3. Re:Baystar is canadian. by JPelorat · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sounds like a good plot for "SCO and Darl's Bogus Journey"

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  3. My favorite part by grunt107 · · Score: 5, Funny

    is the following paragraph:
    'SCO maintains that it has been a paragon of virtue and transparency throughout, and that everything it said publicly and privately is true. But, and this should come as no surprise, it won't had over the documents BayStar wants to see. It says this is to "protect the confidential and proprietary nature of the information" and to "avoid fostering speculation regardng its SCOsource business".'

    Darl: Paragon of Virtue, Lifter of the Downtrodden, Scooper of the Pooper - He needs an action figure!!!!

  4. Two hours and five minutes by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

    The five minutes to draft their response, I can understand. What was the two hours for? Laughter, rage, a few more holes of golf?

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  5. Dear Darl & Chris by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    It takes a big man to cry, it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
    Jack Handey

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  6. So does SCO even have any friends now? by tekiegreg · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't think of one offhand, even Microsoft by implication is their enemy, (if a friend of a friend is now an enemy of your friend, they are your enemy too, no?), congrats SCO you're probably now one of the most loathed companies in America. Lower than Microsoft, lower than Diebold, lower than the Nigerian Asset Transfer consortium that always wants my money, you get the picture...

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  7. Obligatory Family Guy quote... by Bigby · · Score: 4, Funny

    "You two, fight to the death." -- Stewie

  8. The reason it took so long by doublem · · Score: 5, Funny

    They were using Microsoft Word to write the briefs.

    Clippy kept popping up with things like "It looks like you're preparing to sue one of Microsoft's business partners, are you sure you don't want to reconsider" and escalating to "You are making Uncle Bill VERY unhappy."

    It finally crashed and sent an "Error Report" with the full text to Microsoft headquarters.

    In the end they just installed OpenOffice and finished.

    Most of the two hours was downloading the OpenOffice install.

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