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SCO Admits They Might Just Not Win - Maybe

Posted by Zonk on from the it-tolls-for-thee-sco-it-tolls-for-thee dept.

inetsee writes "According to Groklaw, SCO has admitted in a 10K filing that if the court grants any or all of IBM's six motions for summary judgement, 'We can not guarantee whether our claims against IBM or Novell will be heard by a jury.' The site goes through a statement by statement run-down of SCO's filing, noting things like the absence of employee numbers (a piece of information they told investors they would disclose). Elsewhere in the document, it is revealed that SCO's stock is in danger of being delisted from NASDAQ, they may come under further litigation from an unrelated legal matter, and SCO is now claiming that OSes like HP-UX and Solaris are derivatives of code that they 'own'. Despite the dire pronouncements throughout the filing, if everything else runs according to plan their 10K indicates they could keep fighting the good fight for another 12 months."

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  1. SCO should skip Trial by Jury by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and demand Trial by Combat.

    And I'm not just saying that because I want Darl whacked by a sword.

    1. Re:SCO should skip Trial by Jury by Teresita · · Score: 5, Funny
      And I'm not just saying that because I want Darl whacked by a sword.

      IBM: What are you going to do, bleed on me?

      SCO: I'm invincible!

      IBM: You're a looney.

      SCO: SCO always triumphs! Have at you! Come on, then. [whop]

      [IBM chops SCO's last leg off]

      SCO: Oh? All right, we'll call it a draw.

      IBM: Come, Patsy.

      SCO: Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!

    2. Re:SCO should skip Trial by Jury by shadowknot · · Score: 4, Funny
      One small correction

      SCO: Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You blue bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!

  2. HP-US? by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't know HP made a special patriotic release. Is it any better than that shithole HP-UX?

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    -- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
  3. Even Miss Cleo saw this coming by Merkwurdigeliebe · · Score: 2, Funny

    SCO should have hired her. She could have told them their scam's chance was slim.

  4. Re:Stock price... by stanmann · · Score: 5, Funny

    IBM could have bought them any time they wanted. They haven't because they're going to kill them, burn them, stomp the ashes, salt the earth, burn the salted earth, burn the salty earthy ashes, stomp that out, pour gasoline around, burn the remaining mess, and then piss on it to put it out.

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    Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
  5. Darl's next employer... by blcamp · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...will have him wearing a blue apron with the white letters and yellow smiley-face. He'll look wistfully upon the computers in the center aisle that are pre-loaded with "his" operating system.

    And he'll mutter to himself: "ahh, what might have been"...

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    The problem with socialism is that they always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher
    1. Re:Darl's next employer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Really? I thought that the collective sentiment here wanted that next "employer" to have him wearing an orange boiler suit, looking wistfully for a tube K-Y jelly.

  6. More like this by splatterboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    SCO Lawyer: Our motion to compel was denied by the judge
    Darl McBride: Denied? Inconceivable!
    SCO Lawyer: Our sealed motion for reconsideration, which tossed out 187 of SCO's items of allegedly misused materials by IBM, was also denied by the judge
    Darl McBride: Denied? Inconceivable!
    SCO Lawyer: Most recently, our motion for Motion for Relief for IBM's Spoliation of Evidence was denied by the judge
    Darl McBride: Denied? Inconceivable!

    IBM Lawyer: You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means...

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    "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." ~The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan