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Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526

Xenographic writes "SCO has finally lost to Novell, now that Judge Kimball has entered final judgment against SCO. Of course, this is SCO we're talking about. There's still the litigation in bankruptcy court, which allowed this case to resume so that they could figure out just how much SCO owes, which is $3,506,526, if I calculated the interest properly, $625,486.90 of which will go into a constructive trust. And then there's the possibility that SCO could seek to have the judgment overturned in the appeals courts, or even the Supreme Court when that fails. Of course, they need money to do that and they don't really have much of that any more. Remember how Enderle, O'Gara and company told us that SCO was sure to win? I wonder how many people have emailed them to say, 'I told you so.'"

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  1. You LOSE! by Wandering+Wombat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good DAY, sir!

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    1. Re:You LOSE! by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mod parent: +1, Willy Wonka

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    2. Re:You LOSE! by Spatial · · Score: 5, Funny

      I demand, demand that this replace +1 underrated.

    3. Re:You LOSE! by D.+Taylor · · Score: 5, Funny

      The underrated mod is underrated.

    4. Re:You LOSE! by Zencyde · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not that it's entirely relevant; but, when I was a junior (2004-2005) my friends and I got ahold of Darl McBride's home phone number and prank called their house. His wife picked up and I went on about some investment opportunity. As soon as I mentioned Linux she started bitching me out and called me a "little shit". :) Yeah, prank calling CEOs was all the rage my junior year.

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    5. Re:You LOSE! by bryxal · · Score: 4, Funny

      you mean the Willy Wonka mod is Willy Wonka?

    6. Re:You LOSE! by D-Cypell · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes yes yes... it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye, or takes a chair in the face.

    7. Re:You LOSE! by remmelt · · Score: 2, Funny

      Willy Wonka is a mod in this place? That would explain a lot.

  2. RIGHT :P by revlayle · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is no "finally" with SCO

    1. Re:RIGHT :P by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      what happens after try and catch then?

    2. Re:RIGHT :P by GerardAtJob · · Score: 5, Funny

      On error resume next

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  3. Is this truly the end? by pitchpipe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously... isn't SCO just like the Energizer Bunny. I keep hearing that we've heard the last of these pukes, and then I hear it again, and again, and again...

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    1. Re:Is this truly the end? by ArsonSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's like "LotR: The Return of the King". Just when you thought it was over, there's 24 more endings to get through.

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    2. Re:Is this truly the end? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's like "LotR: The Return of the King". Just when you thought it was over, there's 24 more endings to get through.

      Including the hobbits bouncing on a bed one? Oh lord...

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  4. Bailout by unlametheweak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, they need money to do that and they don't really have much of that any more.

    They could always apply for a government bailout package.

    1. Re:Bailout by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually they fit the criteria of the other companies getting the bailouts:

      #1 Can't balance a budget.
      #2 Stupid or insane CEOs and upper management.
      #3 Lobby Congresspeople to try and vote for certain bills to be passed so they owe them favors for a bailout.
      #4 Annoying corporate culture that makes no sense.
      #5 Pissed away most of their money on some stupid lawsuit.
      #6 Blames someone or something else for their financial woes instead of their bad management and bad accounting books.

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  5. Going to court against IBM... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... which own patents on both sliced bread and wheel is great idea. Way to go fuckers!

    1. Re:Going to court against IBM... by db10 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Shampoo invented sliced bread and the wheel. Everything that Shampoo has invented is just in thought and is not produced for lack of money. These inventions are property of Shampoo and are to be patented, copyrighted and trademarked under the name: Shampoo.

  6. This is great news by Majik+Sheff · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now can we dismember the corpse, seal it in a hardwood box, put the box 12 feet under ground, cover it with at least a couple of tons of concrete, and then build a parking lot over the spot?

    I don't want any chance of this zombie coming back again and demanding royalties.

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    1. Re:This is great news by VEGETA_GT · · Score: 4, Funny

      And knowing my luck I would park on that lot and would have them send me a letter saying I owe them royalties for parking over there grave as its a privilege to do so.

    2. Re:This is great news by X0563511 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Isn't FUD supposed to spread... well, FUD? If that is their intention, they are failing. The only things they are spreading is irritation sympathetic embarrassment.

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  7. Christmas is early this year by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    SCO gets a final judgement and loses $3.5m. Someone (Missouri) finally files a RICO suit against the RIAA. Our do-nothing Congress actually gets the balls enough to stand up to the automotive industry.

    At this point I'm halfway expecting to see a copy of Duke Nukem Forever in my stocking.

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    1. Re:Christmas is early this year by decalod85 · · Score: 5, Funny

      And "Chinese Democracy" from GNR is due out on Sunday. It's like the final episode of a TV series where the writers are trying furiously to wrap up all the loose ends!

    2. Re:Christmas is early this year by SEE · · Score: 4, Funny

      The only holdup on Duke Nukem Forever is the manual. And Harlan Ellison will get around to that just as soon as he finishes The Last Dangerous Visions.

  8. Zombie? More like vampire.... by tnk1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't forget the garlic you need to put in the coffin.

    And make sure and kill any ghoul servants. They're always trying to resurrect their masters.

    I suggest you start by a scheme of napalm applied liberally to the offices of their legal representation.

  9. Re:Enderle matters? by tnk1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Um, I beg to differ. That Ferrari logo adds at least 220hp to my internet connection.

  10. Will SCO do a clearance sale of Linux licenses? by neonux · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been waiting such a long time to afford one of these to try that Linux thing legally.

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  11. Re:Enderle matters? by Mistshadow2k4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your internet connection has hit points?! What does damage to it, trolls?

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  12. gratification by bcrowell · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it was extremely gratifying to look at the graph of the stock price and see that Yahoo had thoughtfully provided some space on the y axis for negative values.

  13. Re:Zombie? More like vampire.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nuke them from space... It's the only way to be sure.

  14. Re:Enderle matters? by SydShamino · · Score: 5, Funny

    It stands for "hit points", though in some games like World of Warcraft this statistic is also called "health".

    220 doesn't seem very good, though. In 3.x WoW that's not much of an improvement at all. Heck, I think his laptop would have better stats if it dropped Ferrari and took up mining for the Toughness bonus. Or perhaps it should take up blacksmithing, so it could add some gem sockets.

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  15. Re:Enderle matters? by abigor · · Score: 3, Funny

    My favourite Enderle quote of late:

    "Next Monday, the Intel Core I7 launches, and Iâ(TM)ve been using a system that Intel sent out which not only has the Core I7 and X58 chipset, but two 4870 X2 ATI graphics cards and two of the companyâ(TM)s new high-speed flash drives.

    To say that this system, (which has 4 real cores, and 4 virtual cores through hyperthreading, for a total of 8) is fast would be vastly understating the experience. The word amazing comes to mind, and I can hardly wait to put Windows 7 on it (is there such a thing as blindingly fast, squared?)"

    Hahahaha

  16. YAAAAAAY! by HolyCrapSCOsux · · Score: 5, Funny

    And that pretty much wraps it up. Now I need a new name...

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  17. Re:3.5M? Oh noes... by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Especially seeing as how that was 4 years ago.

    Back then, 50M bucks was a lot of money.

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  18. Slashdot 2020: SCO dead by Seth+Kriticos · · Score: 2, Funny

    This time for sure, really really, we promise after burring them 9 feet under, just this last little side arm remaining..

    1. Re:Slashdot 2020: SCO dead by francium+de+neobie · · Score: 2, Funny

      SCO may be dead, but the year 2020 will STILL be the year of Linux on the desktop.

  19. Re:3.5M? Oh noes... by Tired+and+Emotional · · Score: 2, Funny
    > Nobody (especially in this economy) would want to buy such a toxic and radioactive property.

    Not even Henry Paulson?

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  20. Re:Enderle matters? by Dachannien · · Score: 2, Funny

    Enderle should have just gone with the red paint job. I painted my laptop red - now it goes just as fast as his, but the difference is that I only look like a complete tool rather than a pretentious asshole.