SCO Granted Hearing on Potential Delisting

Groklaw Reader writes "SCO will be allowed an oral hearing on its potential delisting. The hearing is scheduled for March 17, 2005, so they again show us what they are best at: staving off impending doom. There is no way to predict the outcome of the hearings, but most of the informed speculation is negative, so there are no silver linings in this case. Unless you think they can find some crazy reason to sue the Nasdaq for billions over it..."

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On St. Patrick's Day, No Less

[ackthpt]

The hearing is scheduled for March 17, 2005, so they again show us what they are best at: staving off impending doom.

St. Patrick's Day?!?! Gee, imagine Lucky the Leprechaun as an SCO spokesman: "Always after me impending doom!" At least it gives us another occasion to toast with our pint o' Guinness, Harp, Murphy's or some beer with green food coloring in it (hopefully not Sudan-1.)

Unless you think they can find some crazy reason to sue the Nasdaq for billions over it..."

Maybe NASDAQ is running some of it's systems on Linux and that's SCO's perceieved Ace-Up-The-Sleeve.

NASDAQ Hearing Committee: "Your company is going down the toilet, you're a parriah and you can't even get your paperwork filed on time"
Darl: "Avast thar, ye scurvy dogs! We be finding yer exchange has a Linux installation on a server, tucked away inna corner. Renew our listing or we'll sue yer fer IP theft and make ye walk the plank! Arrr!"
NASDAQ Hearing Committee: "You're also a pretty piss-poor pirate. At least get a parrot."

Re:On St. Patrick's Day, No Less

[TripMaster Monkey]

I would put SCO at the level of a crappy Ninja.

A vision of Chris Farley as a ninja comes to mind...

Re:On St. Patrick's Day, No Less

[Vengie]

The hearing is set for St. Patty's day, not September 19th. [National Talk Like a Pirate Day]

Re:On St. Patrick's Day, No Less

[Alsee]

At least get a parrot.

But they already have Laura Didio and Robert Enderle.

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wait a second...

[ed.han]

"unless you think they can find some crazy reason to sue the nasdaq for billions over it"

rather than suing IBM for millions for some crazy reason, eh? :>

ed

Victim's Impact Statement

[bigtallmofo]

Will all of us be permitted to prepare and recite a victim's impact statement during the hearing?

Suing NASQAQ?

[Aeron65432]

Don't even suggest the idea, they might do it.

Good deal

[Tibor the Hun]

This will give me enough time to send them my registration check!

Hang in there

[rdavidson3]

We need you. You can't leave us...

If you do leave, what else would the /. community laugh at

Re:Thank you Darl!

[Anonymous Coward]

Two words: shareholder lawsuit.

Add SCOEX to portfolio

[EEPS]

Anyone think its funny, the link below the article says "Add SCOEX to your potfolio"? sounds like a great idea! ;)

Obligatory SCO Comment

[Cytlid]

Everytime there's an SCO story, I feel obligated to comment.

Hmm.. oral hearing? Will I be able to find pictures of Daryl with the kneepads on, on the web soon?

Re:Huh.

[m50d]

You kidding? Just find the +5 insightful comments from the last SCO thread and copy them. Mods can't tell the difference anyway.

Re:Huh.

[Tackhead]

> > Will de-listing do anything to stop their crap?
>
> Sure will spell the end of their credibility.

...for values of "credible" that were already approaching epsilon.

I have to admit I like the "E" that's been added to denote their delisting. SCOXE. Rhymes with "Goatse".

Re:SCO is evil

[MightyMartian]

Wow, this must Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory! Perhaps you can tell me how missing Czarist gold, JFK's assassination and UFOs play into this.

Perhaps you can also tell me the last time you took your medication.

Re:symbol..

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Well, next week it will by goatse.

Welcome to #scoisstopid - Topic: SCO is stupid!

[Vermyndax]

Slashdot > ...Unless you think they can find some crazy reason to sue the Nasdaq for billions over it...

SCOLawy3r > OMFG ROFLMAO WHAT A GR3@T ID3@!!!!!!!!11!!!

* SCOLawy3r is away: filing lawsuit

Re:SCO is evil

[rewt66]

Can't resist a challenge ;-)

Canopy (SCO's parent) was planning on finding the Czarist gold to fund their continued growth, but couldn't find it. So they hired Darl to head SCO and make them a bunch of money instead.

Unfortunately, back in the 60's, Darl actually found the Czarist gold. But the government wanted him to pay taxes on it, so he assassinated JFK. The UFOs decided that the Czarist gold was causing us a lot of trouble, and so in our own best interest, they took it. Unfortunately for SCO, at the same time the UFOs also stole Darl's brain, on the grounds that since he had assassinated JFK, he was too dangerous to leave unchecked. But this missing brain caused large problems for SCO down the road, when they tried to take on IBM...

(In case it isn't clear to one and all, there is no connection whatsoever between this post and reality.)

Hmmmmm.

[jd]

Microsoft could sue. Delisting is doing an IsNot(SCO) operation, and IsNot() is patented to Microsoft.

Technically, I suppose, removing SCO is applying the same entry on top of itself, as an XOR or reverse field. If SCO didn't grant permission to use the modified version of its trademark, it might have a trademark infringement case.