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SCO Springs a Prospective Buyer
clemenstimpler sends a link to Groklaw, which has been following the proceedings dealing with the conversion of SCO's bankruptcy to Chapter 7 (i.e., liquidating the company). SCO has announced a prospective buyer. "...SCO has suggested it has a buyer. That doesn't mean it will avoid Chapter 7 of course, nor does it mean that the bankruptcy court will OK the suggested sale. But it likely does mean more delay, which is what this is likely all about. SCO very much wants to wait until the appeals court rules in SCO v. Novell. ... Hearing set for July 16 with backup for July 27. SCO has already moved to make it July 27. combo hearing on convert and sale. Frankly, it would not totally amaze me if the three entities that filed motions to convert were to appeal this. If not, SCO got its desired delay."
They're dragging it out so we can savor it.
This article's title gave me the mental image of a decomposing zombie clawing its' way up out of the ground.
Hopefully as the article suggests, the sale will be forestalled, and some judge will finally put a stake in this monster once and for all. ;)
This image, http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/5233c6cac0.jpg was a little un-called for.
Richard has done quite a good job, imo. I met him once at an "overnighter" kind of rally for political refugees when we both entered this country almost at the same time. I never could quite figure-out his political views beneath all the "free software" senses that he advertised using all his "free labor" methods of devoting all that time to such strategy. It appeared effective at a fiscal scale, but not at a family one.
I must say, though Caldera was a completely different company these past years since Darryl gave direction, the true Caldera Linux lives-on in the servers that still run it. I fondly remember administering Caldera 2.2 and 2.3 using their excellent-at-the-time Novell Netware extensions for IPX disk shares and this eased integration with existing Novell-dominated environments in the civil service sections of the government institutions whose documents I helped archive and maintane with complete satisfaction. Somtimes I sit and think just what happened to such a great company, it having the only Linux distribution with DOSEMU to Caldera's DR DOS at the time as would seem the perfect replacement for a Windows For Workgroups, NT, and 95/98 installation while all the other distributions leached off it's tuned perfection.
It will sadly be missed, but still runs on my old 486 network gateway with a IPX Meridian SCSI 14-drive CDROM array.
They're getting a bailout! The government will now own Linux.
Health Freedom is almost as popular as Freedom itself.
...would that suitor be based in Redmond, WA?
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How far do we need to follow the money to find Microsoft ?
Give the judge a trench gun and be done with these pesky zombies.
I very much hope the Office of the US Trustee, IBM, Novell and others do not appeal the delay. Of course, they have excellent grounds for doing so, but the result would likely just be a longer delay. SCO has successfully gamed the system, and will probably gain a six week delay in the process. If this is appealed, it will probably take longer than six weeks just to argue and get a decision. Meanwhile, SCO will argue that the purchase agreement cannot go forward with the Chapter 7 conversion hanging over their head (BS, of course, but prove it).
So this is an attempt to get the remaining cash and Unix assets out of reach of Novell, and leave the shell of SCO (plus some mobile products that most likely have no value) to continue the lawsuit, with no money left over for Novell and IBM when they eventually run out of appeals.
Bullshit.
You have been conned by stupid MIT staffroom politics which has escaped onto the net. Linux is not a GNU project, the GNU operating system is called HURD. I think the whole gnu/linux thing and the LiGnuX thing before it was just a response to people asking RMS what he had done lately. He has done a lot of worthwhile things but linux was put together by others. The gnu tools are incredibly useful but make up only a small portion of most linux distributions and are not there at all in some of the embedded distributions (which use a different C library and use busybox).
There is a linux distibution called is "Debian gnu/linux", but all the packaging has been done by Debian without involvement by gnu.
It also seems you have confused GNU with the GPL and seem to think the GPL restricts commercial activity - keep in mind that not even Halliburton are afraid of it since all it really means is telling people where you got your free code from. It isn't 1995 anymore, and even then anyone that took the time to actually read the thing wouldn't have been that worried about it.
in this day and age...after the credit implosion and GM's bankruptcy..after Madoff....there's someone still stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hbold enough to buy SCO?
Man....can someone get me his number? I've got a few dozen bridges and landmarks to sell him, not to mention a few automobiles.
I understand they just need a bit more time to conclude their purchase of the Duke Nukem Forever codebase and issue a call for investors to fund completion of this vital work.
Oh, there won't be a game coming out of all this - SCO will have a pile of algorithms and methods specific to the gaming world stretching back as far as the first annoucement of DNF and so they can then start to examine games produced since that date from all the big players to see if they have 'pinched' anything.
3. Profit
AT&ROFLMAO
What if the prospective buyer is Microsoft?! Who could object to that, and on what grounds?!
Scary.
I wonder if SCO told their buyer that Linux (all of it) is part of the sale? They probably said "yea, this guy with a blue blanket and a red and black striped shirt who calls himself Linus is gonna try to tell you that Linux isn't ours to sell, yea, just ignore him".
Why lie when you can just make up stuff and claim it to be true?
There is no indication that the decision of the appeals court will occur in the next six weeks. SCO is stalling because that is the tactic they've adopted from the very first "suitcase of proof" and "millions of lines of code" and "MIT deep-divers."
FUD works when it lasts for a very long time, not when it's immediately dispelled.
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One hop :
http://www.infoworld.com/t/platforms/sco-strikes-gold-verizon-just-strikes-728
Microsoft bought $6 million of "licenses" to SCO in 2003.
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I'm not dead! I feel fine! I think I'll go for a walk! I'm getting better! ..
Honestly, its like the monster that will not die, nothing works - garlic, holy water, silver bullets, stake, decapitation, fire and even the BFG9000 could not finish it.
Just stay down, everybody will be much happier and we are all waiting for the party.
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I almost bought SCO. But I spent the $10 at McDonalds instead.
I don't really think there is any serious buyer. Previously SCO tried to launch an emergency sale to York management only to have the bankruptcy court and all its creditors object to the deal. What SCO never made clear (or tried to hide) in that deal was who would get the liabilities from the Novell judgment against them. If the sale had gone through, Novell would have had to spend years figuring out who owed them the money. This is just another ploy to stall for time.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
If this keeps up, we'll have to add SCO to the nuclear attack survivor list currently including cockroaches and Cher.
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Hang on.
So they lied about linux containing unix code.
Then they lied about owning full unix rights.
Then they lied constantly about their ability to handle it in court.
Then they lied to the court by using stalling tactics pretending they needed information.
Maybe they're lying? You know, flat-out, bald faced shameless lying? They're already so badly in trouble in the courts, what's one more lie if it helps stave off death a bit longer?
It's been a long time.
your next general release of SCO Unix will run on the Mattel Aquarius and Coleco Adam only. please to transfer your databases to cassette tape.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
This is 4th "prospective buyer" in 19 months
Whenever scox's bankruptcy comes to trial, scox tells the judge about some mysterious prospective buyer, and scox gets another delay. Scox has been playing this game for nearly two years, and there is no end in sight. Of course, the dubious buyouts never materializes.
Either the judge falls for the same trick every time, or there is corruption involved. Considering that msft has been behind the scox-scam every step of the way since the beginning of the scam (over six years ago), the possibility of corruption is real. After all, msft is the company that admitted to bribing public officials in the OOXML scam.
Just another case of msft backed corruption?
This is 4th "prospective buyer" in 19 months
Whenever scox's bankruptcy comes to trial, scox tells the judge about some mysterious prospective buyer, and scox gets another delay. Scox has been playing this game for nearly two years, and there is no end in sight. Of course, the dubious buyouts never materializes.
Either the judge falls for the same trick every time, or there is corruption involved. Considering that msft has been behind the scox-scam every step of the way since the beginning of the scam (over six years ago), the possibility of corruption is real. After all, msft is the company that admitted to bribing public officials in the OOXML scam.
Anyway, the suitor has been announced: Gulf Capital Partners. Which raises the question: is there a Microsoft connection to these guys? The only company with any discernible reason to keep Sweet Zombie SCO alive is Microsoft.
I have answered my question: yes there is a definite MS connection. "The issue is not if you're paranoid, it's if you are paranoid enough." -- Max, "Strange Days"
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Maybe its like those crappy telephone "bait and switch" scams and somebody just thought they were just buying "Naughty Nurses" porn.
Suddenly instead of a DVD of said "Naughty Nurses" they suddenly open a box full of SCO stock.
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Try actually reading the GPL, it's actually fairly simple.
However remember that RMS had nothing whatsoever to do with the development of linux apart from writing a licence that Linus liked. All the wailing about gcc by those that want to shove the gnu/linux label down people's throats is irrelevant since if gcc was not there another compiler would have been used. I was replying to the above bullshit that RMS owns linux, not about the other things you have there and although I cannot actually understand a large portion of it you have certainly written a large amount of text. While there are a large number of impressively long words their meaning doesn't fit in context so I suggest using shorter and simpler sentences until you have a better understanding of English. I have the advantage of English as a first language but would still not use such a style. Mark Twain wrote "If I Had More Time I Would Write a Shorter Letter" and it's a good principle to keep in mind even with technical writing. If you have a firm understanding of English and use such a deliberately florid style as a joke homage to barely remembered 19th century fiction please play it on someone else because it just comes out as an unreadable pile of crap full of words that do nothing but waste the time of the reader - and God's sake read something better to inspire you. The only place I've seen a style like that work is in Brian Aldiss' "Barefoot in the Head" but only because the point was that the reader was not meant to understand and to be as confused by the text as if they had a drug addled brain.