SCO's "Least Supported Idea Yet"

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Unsurprisingly, all of SCO's creditors have objected to the plan to reimburse York for the failed 'emergency' deal. Novell's tiny seven page objection (PDF) is hilarious and very readable. They don't hold back at all, saying that 'all that happened is that the Debtors spent money needlessly on a proceeding that was, to all intents and purposes, stillborn had it not been for the stubbornness of the Debtors' management and the avarice of York,' and that it was 'another really bad deal they have chased in ceaseless pursuit of their dreams of a litigation bonanza.' They top it off by concluding with the line, 'for the reasons explained above, the Court should deny the Motion as the Debtors' worst and least supported idea yet in these cases.' One can only wonder how SCO will respond to this."

Comments

SCO to hire more lawyers

[Malevolent Tester]

Commentators note this is the first example of vermin joining a sinking ship.

Re:SCO to hire more lawyers

[Kjella]

They're shapeshifters, vermin and sharks. No matter if the ship sinks or floats, you know they'll make a killing.

SCO's response?

[Bieeanda]

That's easy. They'll sue Novell for defamation!

I'd be more apathetic if I weren't so lethargic

[peipas]

Really? I feel like Peter Griffin standing outside the newsstand for 48 hours trying to understand the New Yorker comic.

(closes PDF)

kill -9

[davejenkins]

I am convinced that SCO and their lawyers are a zombie process at this point. The bankruptcy was an attempt to kill the pid with some hope of clean up, but i fear we are to the stage of kill -9. I don't know what the legal equivalent of this is, except to get the sheriff in his off-hours to go in and lock the doors and just physically seize everything.

MAKE IT STOP!!!!

Re:kill -9

[morgan_greywolf]

And what if that fails to work? Will we have to reboot the world?

Re:kill -9

[domatic]

Killing the parent process will get rid of a zombie. The problem here is that the system has been pwned and the hidden parent process is "msdirtytricks".

Re:kill -9

[Volanin]

Just use kill -NERFGUN [zombie process] ... if your OS doesn't ban it, of course.

Re:kill -9

[morgan_greywolf]

pwned by local root exploit? Time to find the user who started the process and kill the user's account.

(pwned by remote root exploit in this case is just too bizarre to think about.)

Re:kill -9

[tlhIngan]

And what if that fails to work? Will we have to reboot the world?

Well, technically, init could do the job just as well, too. After all, it spawned off (eventually) the process that spawned the zombie (and forgot to reap them). Now, we just need to telinit to reap some zombie processes.

Things are easier if one of those processes was a shell spawned by init... kill the shell, and init will respawn it, reaping any zombies that the shell was an eventual parent of.

Surprised there's no silver-bullet gun utility to go alongside with kill. Or that kill doesn't have a --wooden-stake option.

Re:kill -9

[erc]

kill -9 1 ;)

Re:kill -9

[Trigun]

Surprised there's no silver-bullet gun utility to go alongside with kill. Or that kill doesn't have a --wooden-stake option.

That would be for vampire processes. --fire or --headshot would be a better option.
Thank heaven that there are no Basilisk processes.

Re:kill -9

[Anonymous Coward]

Disk mirroring defeats basilisk processes.

Re:kill -9

[WK2]

We have already established that rebooting the universe is a bad idea. How is killing it a better solution?

If I weren't already a registered Slashdotter...

[Tsar]

...I'd want "The Avarice of York" as my alias. Who'll bet that it's taken by the end of the day?

It's Shakespeare (almost)

[Kupfernigk]

SCO: Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.

Novell: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty case from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time.

IBM: SCO's but a walking shadow.

Groklaw, chorus of Slashdot readers and industry analysts: Out, out brief candle!

Re:If I weren't already a registered Slashdotter..

[The Avarice of York]

orly?

SCO's "Least Supported Idea Yet"

[oahazmatt]

I read the headline and feared this was a new revenue-generating plan from the mind of Darl McBride. "There's this completely untapped market! All we need is a basket of kittens and a commercial-grade deli slicer...no no, listen! When it doesn't make money, we sue Quizno's!"

Re:SCO's "Least Supported Idea Yet"

[sm62704]

I read the headline and feared this was a new revenue-generating plan from the mind of Darl McBride. "There's this completely untapped market! All we need is a basket of kittens

Did someone say kittens?

"On the streets these days, a dime bag of kittens costs a pretty penny." ~ Oscar Wilde

Sort of turns the Bard on his ear

[Anonymous Coward]

Now is the sunset of our glorious SCO
Made winter by the discontent and avarice of York...

Re:If I weren't already a registered Slashdotter..

[o'reor]

Thanks for taking the time to show us how many Slashdot user accounts were created to this day ;-)

Re:If I weren't already a registered Slashdotter..

[Nimey]

You must be new here.

Re:This guy again?!?!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm modding myself down for this offtopic comment with the "no karma bonus" box.


I *never* use my karma bonus when posting!

Re:Goatse

[moderatorrater]

Offtopic may not be fair for this particular Goatse link. Consider the GP: SCO hiring more lawyers is like rats going to a sinking ship. The AC was just trying to point out SCO's position, that hiring more lawyers may just be facilitating the outcome we all know is coming (ie "opening wide").

You nerds love it. I do indeed love SCO facilitating its own eventual outcome, yes.

That would be terrible

[GameboyRMH]

And what if that fails to work? Will we have to reboot the world? I sure as hell hope not, that's a crapload of work. First you have to build a tunneling machine out of a newly invented ultra-strong super-insulating metal that can somehow convert heat into electricity (which can be extracted by soldering a couple of bigass leads to any point on the hull), then set off a chain reaction of nukes in the earth's core to get it spinning again, 'cuz you know if the earth's core isn't spinning the whole planet will explode or something.

Well actually, since it would be spinning to begin with, I guess we'd have to use two nuke chain reactions, one to stop the spinning and one to start it.

I saw a documentary on it once...awful, I don't recommend it.

Still not as good as this ruling ...

[Ravensfire]

http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document073001.shtml

Anytime a Judge uses the words "most amateurish pleadings", "bumbling", or "a pig is still a pig" to describe the efforts of the attorneys, it's going to be a bad day for someone. Or in this case, both someones.

"Now, alas, the Court must return to grownup land." - priceless! We need more people as judges with a biting sense of humor (and the nerve to use it liberally!) like this!

-- Ravensfire

Re:Still not as good as this ruling ...

[Darby]

I always thought the law was dry and boring. Judge Kent's courtroom must be a fun place indeed (as long as you're not an idiot, like the plaintiff's lawyer)

I was in court once for a speeding ticket, and there was some guy in there for a noise violation (playing his car stereo too loud). The judge had him walk to the back of the courtroom with a measuring tape, said "can you hear me?". The guy said, "yes" and the judge said, "that's too loud" (based on the law and the distance).

So the guy comes back to the stand, the judge tells him that since it's his first offense that if he pleads guilty he'll most likely just get the charges dropped. So after a few times of the judge leading him along that course he finally said "guilty".

The judge banged his gavel and said, "30 days in jail".

The kid's face dropped, a wave of "holy shit" went across the courtroom and then the judge started laughing and said "just kidding, charges dropped".

Re:Wow

[nuzak]

The law firm representing Novell doesn't have the domain mofo.com for nothing.

I hope

[BCW2]

Someone writes a script. This could be funnier than Office Space and be 100% true! Great movie idea!

Re:I hope

[MrCopilot]

this could be funnier than Office Space and be 100% true! Great movie idea! And we could call it OpenOffice Space.org

Re:150,000K

[Trigun]

There you go. You should apply for the job!

Re:The proposed buyer, SNCP, has no money

[MrNiceguy_KS]

They also attempted to broker a deal with Chuck Norris Capital Partners. Chuck Norris responded by laughing, then roundhouse kicking the SCO lawyer through a plate glass window, then laughing even harder, because there's nothing funnier than a lawyer being kicked through a plate glass window.

What it means to an IBM employee

[MrKaos]

My Girlfriend works for IBM, and this morning I read this and I commented to her,

"How humiliating for SCO"

"SCO?"

"Yeah, you know, SCO, they tried to sue IBM"

"Did they?.. . . ",long pause , "Who?"