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A Discussion of SCO's Fate With Groklaw's Pamela Jones
An anonymous reader writes "The SCO Group's current fate can be neatly summarized by the title of Pamela Jones' very first article on the case, back in May 2003 — 'SCO Falls Downstairs, Hitting its Head on Every Step.' In the intervening years PJ and Groklaw can be credited with unearthing and exposing many of the flaws in SCO's case, most notably, obtaining and publishing the 1994 settlement in the USL vs BSDi case. An article at the ITPro site interviews PJ about SCO, the impact of Groklaw and future of free software and the law."
The SCO cases could drag on for years, or they could end next month. It's hard to say. Groklaw just covering SCO is enough for now.
As SCO management is discovering, they have far less control in bankruptcy than they could before. They were able to control the pace of the pre-bankruptcy cases because they were the plaintiff in most of them. It's different in bankruptcy. The bankruptcy judge, the U.S. Trustee, and the creditors are in charge. The bankruptcy judge keeps shooting down SCO management's wierd legal ideas.
Yahoo Finance says it all: "SCOX is deficient and bankrupt."
And that same Wiki page notes that OSRM employed her once.
I guess they think she's real.
It's one the financial status classifications that NASDAQ uses. Deficient means that they don't live up to NASDAQs conditions for continued listing and in this case it's most likely that they've been trading to long under $1 (and perhaps that their market capitalisation is to small as well). Bankrupt, well, if you're in chapter 11 you're certainly bankrupt.
Some other classifications are: "deficent and delinquent", "delinquent and bankrupt" and "deficent, delinquent and bankrupt".
See: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader/News/2005/vendoralerts/nva2005-021.stm
the self-restraint to stay inside her area of expertise
Obviously not a regular reader. Every few weeks she goes off on some hairbrained rant, often loaded with conspiracy theories and paranoia.
Groklaw is really good when it sticks to what its good at though.