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SCO's "Least Supported Idea Yet"

Posted by Zonk on from the another-shipment-from-crazy-town dept.

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."

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  1. SCO to hire more lawyers by Malevolent+Tester · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. SCO's response? by Bieeanda · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. I'd be more apathetic if I weren't so lethargic by peipas · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    (closes PDF)

  4. kill -9 by davejenkins · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!!!!

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    1. Re:kill -9 by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    2. Re:kill -9 by domatic · · Score: 5, Funny

      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".

    3. Re:kill -9 by Volanin · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    4. Re:kill -9 by tlhIngan · · Score: 3, Funny

      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.
    5. Re:kill -9 by erc · · Score: 4, Funny

      kill -9 1 ;)

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    6. Re:kill -9 by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

    7. Re:kill -9 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Disk mirroring defeats basilisk processes.

    8. Re:kill -9 by WK2 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  5. If I weren't already a registered Slashdotter... by Tsar · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  6. It's Shakespeare (almost) by Kupfernigk · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!

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  7. Re:If I weren't already a registered Slashdotter.. by The+Avarice+of+York · · Score: 5, Funny

    orly?

  8. Sort of turns the Bard on his ear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  9. Re:If I weren't already a registered Slashdotter.. by Nimey · · Score: 5, Funny

    You must be new here.

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  10. Still not as good as this ruling ... by Ravensfire · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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    1. Re:Still not as good as this ruling ... by Darby · · Score: 4, Funny

      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".

  11. I hope by BCW2 · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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    1. Re:I hope by MrCopilot · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  12. Re:The proposed buyer, SNCP, has no money by MrNiceguy_KS · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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