Novell to SCO - Pay Up

gosherm writes with word that, now that the dust is beginning to settle on the long-running SCO case, Novell wants to get paid. Now. They're requesting that the customary stay on SCO's finances (as a result of their bankruptcy) be lifted so that Novell can begin recouping some of its losses from the protracted legal battle. "'We need to adjudicate if this is money owed to Novell or if it is Novell's property,' said Bruce Lowry, spokesman for Novell. That could determine how quickly Novell can recover those funds. And time is of the essence since there's a possibility SCO 'may run low or even completely out of cash during the process of trying to reorganize,' Novell said in court documents filed Thursday. Novell is also trying to protect royalties SCO collects from Unix and Unixware software licensees and remits annually to the software developer. SCO is required to continue to remit between $500,000 and $800,000 annually to Novell -- the next payment is due Nov. 14. SCO remitted $696,413 to Novell between the third quarter of 2006 and the second quarter of this year."

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Re:Negative value reorganization of moderation?

[shanen]

After posting that /. sent me the famous and fabulous reminder:

For Slashdot's moderation system to function properly, we need as many users as possible to Meta-Moderate. You are currently eligible... why not hop over and help?

The premise of this question is that the moderation system has functioned properly. May I ask when that was? What I want now is a configuration setting so /. will stop asking me about meta-moderation. I've already expressed my meta-moderation opinion about the anonymous and elitist moderation system: It sucks. Quit bothering me about your god-d@mned worthless moderation system. I'd be unsurprised if 90% of the regular users would select such an option (excluding the moderating gamesters and the newbie suckers).

Go ahead and mod it off-topic--but it is *NOT*. Bad moderation pervades the entire /. system and therefore the topic of moderation (and meta-moderation) is never off-topic. Better some of the moderators should at least try to moderate some of the actually funny posts as funny, though such posts are far and few between these years.

My own pattern of /. usage is that I visit for a few weeks, get disgusted and bored and then I go away for a few months. This gives me a view of /. that is sort of like slow-motion photography. My main impression over the years is that "funny" mods are much less funny. Perhaps that's being imposed by external Bushevikian realities, but I think it's probably an internal thing, in that the funny people have mostly gotten disgusted with /. and quit using it. The second most likely hypothesis is that the mods are so bad that there are still some funny posts, but they aren't marked that way. Whatever the case, I still like humor--but /. is no longer a source.