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Half of SCO's Accountants Quit
Groklaw Reader writes "Apparently, SCO's lawyers were working overtime last Sunday, because they wrote a quick plea to the bankruptcy court for permission to hire accounting temps. Why? Approximately half of SCO's finance department has resigned or been fired. Two who resigned had over ten years of experience each. One can only assume that they know what's about to happen to SCO."
Good!
Half the accountants? How about some of the lawyers too?
I guess the rats are leaving the ship.
SCO sued Novell, IBM, and Anderson Consulting, declaring that SCO owned the intellectual property entitled "Accountant" and that their proposed licensing scheme of $699 per day, per "accountant", had been rebuffed by said companies. Details to follow.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
The two accountants with the longest experience immediately took a weekend break in Switzerland, to do some skiing (and visiting friends in the banking sector).
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Seriously, what about the other half? Do they have some sort of personal reality distortion field?
They've either got iron-clad guarantee of compensation or they are afraid to leave, go look for another job, what have you.
Ultimately they will all likely find things do not work out and that Bob is indeed not their uncle.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Darl can totally turn this thing around. Just you watch. It's just another minor setback. They'll be vindicated - just you see. Soon as they get over this small bump, they'll start raking in the cash from all those UNIX licenses that they're going to get from every single Linux user out there. Just as soon as...
Ok, a joke's a joke but I can't type anymore. My fingers started spontaneously bleeding.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
I just happened to pick up other traits geeks don't seem to have.
Sanctimoniousness, for one.
-- Alastair
No. I do my own banking, employers who owe me money give me checks, and then I decide where to cash them or what account to put some in or whether or not to just carry it around in the form of "cash". And I also don't tremble in mortal fear when carrying said sums of cash about either, any size, because I am quite capable of personal self defense, by skills, training, mindset and tools, and am perfectly willing to completely and probably permanently ruin some potential mugger's day without suffering angst over it. Nor do I use some plastic card for every single transaction. Nor am I ever going to get "chipped" or trust my account to some telco vendor and cheap piece of plastic cellphone and "wave" it around to purchase things.
Believe it or not, some people haven't fully adopted the metrosexual lifestyle. And I drink plain coffee, black, and it doesn't come *ever* from a "must be seen there" trendy coffee shoppe. And the only thing I "mash up" is potatoes, and I use sharp pointy bent pieces of thin metal to catch fish with, not as sexual adornments or "fashion statements".
Generalizations don't work very well in most circumstances, now do they?
Translation: Nearly half resigned, and nearly half were fired.
They have no one left to cook.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Suppose they could start paying their employees with stock options ...
-- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
Remember, the correct response is not "Gee, I bet that's a nice ship now that all the rats have left".
--Joe
Who counted them?
There's probably a good number of chairs.
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
Then again I'm waiting for Enron to reopen for business so I can invest my life savings in another rock-solid business.
ant.I think there's someone in Redmond who's already called dibs on those.
... not all accountants are rats.
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Must be Monday.
I'm not sure if this question is flamebait or not (being AC I'll bet it is) but as the saying goes I'll bite;
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Maybe this image that I saw on Groklaw will be an indication of things to come....
http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=image&file=Darl.jpg
Banjo - The more I know about Windoze, the more I love *nix
What assets and ip?
The several dozen copies of the Book of Mormon ?
Another day closer to redwood heaven
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
They only ever had three accountants, but they all counted each other twice*
*I know it doesn't add up. That's accountancy.
"While we're waiting, help yourself to some more stock options"
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Sort of a caldera?
how to invest, a novice's guide
So that's why Hewlett-Packard got so screwed up when they bought Compaq!
-Mike
I'm sorry; I don't know what I was thinking!
Whatever ledger to think that?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."