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Predicting SCO's Actions Post Bankruptcy
eldavojohn writes "SCO lost last year and began the bankruptcy filings a long time ago but PJ has some speculative bad news on what they retain through the bankruptcy proceedings. SCO proposes to sell a number of assets to an outfit called UnXis, which PJ characterizes this way: 'It starts to hint that this is more a renaming, taking in some new management who seem to have financial expertise, and SCO keeps skipping along as unXis, with the dangerous litigation spun off safely into a litigation troll.' In their filings SCO says they retain 'their litigation and related claims against International Business Machines Corporation, Novell, Inc., AutoZone Corporation, Red Hat and certain Linux users which are not material customers of UnXis (excluding certain large-scale users of Linux servers) that are claimed to have infringed against UNIX copyrights.' So that's still a possibility they could go after anyone who is a 'certain Linux user.' And what's even worse is that they'll retain a patent for running multiple Java applications on a single Java virtual machine. We may not be out of the SCO litigation woods yet."
We'll have to nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Caveat Utilitor
Microsoft Corp. announced today that they were planning on acquiring SCO for $1985.67. "I believe this is a great opportunity for us to diversify our product portfolio", Steve Ballmer said in a press conference.
We'll have to nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
They're like roaches.. They can withstand a nuclear apocalypse..
SCO or whatever they become will keep losing cases. Those who are supporting them are treating it like a high risk investment and hoping it pays off.
They're a parasite with no turnover of any significant amount, you can't keep a business going if the sole source of income is from court cases.
So what does SCO have other than a few patents that may or may not be invalid, the name, and a whole lot of bad press?
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
"... with the dangerous litigation spun off safely into a litigation troll."
Don't count on it. The deal with their lawyers for the lawsuits was, a cut of the winnings if they won, a cut of the company if they lost. They lost. The landsharks inherited big chunks of the bloody corpse. Just imagine them trying to keep from turning the company into a perpetual replay of the last couple years. They'd bust a vein with the effort. I say the company will become the lawyers' hammer for every nail worth suing.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
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Whatever they do, it will be the most ridiculous, idiotic, and/or moronic and asinine thing possible!
Pretty much nobody here is warped enough to predict it right!
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
RIAA attacks consumers, typically middle class or lower individuals who can't afford to fight back.
SCO attacks large corporations. IBM, for example, can't afford not to fight back. IBM has deep pockets, and a very diversified business. If it was known as an easy target, anybody and their cousin would sue it for the money.
Note: I am an IBM employee, but my job doesn't get me anywhere near legal strategy. This is purely my own opinion, and does not represent IBM in any way, shape or form.
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To be honest we've been worrying about SCO for years now, "the sky is falling" worrying, a couple front page /. articles a month kind of worrying, and to date SCO has won basically nothing, and have done very little actual harm excepting that caused by people worrying about and being scared by them enough to do stupid things they didn't need to do. They've run up some legal bills but they were mostly paid by companies that could afford them like IBM and Novell, and those big companies usually have lawyers sitting around spoiling for a fight anyway.
I'm making a resolution to absolutely stop caring about SCO until they actually win something in a courtroom or do ANYTHING which actually proves to be a real and substantive threat. Everyone constantly worrying about them has done more damage than if we had just yawned, and said "move along, nothing to see here".
@de_machina
I know nothing about the company, but I hate it passionately, if only because of its name.
UnXis. How the hell are you supposed to pronounce that? Unzis? Unks-is? Un-Eks-is? Damn them to hell.
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That is such made-up garbage, there is no way that is true. You're making it up.
There is no way you have a girlfriend.
A lot of issues and claims have already been resolved in prior cases. A thorough analysis of the risk of future SCO-Spawn-Litigation depends upon the preclusive effect of those cases. In other words, SCO's children don't get to relitigate things that SCO has already litigated (and lost) once.
The instant discussion isn't very informative because it appears to omit a thorough discussion of the effect of SCO's previous defeats on SCO's children's future prospects.
That'd be old SCO then, the infamous jerks are new SCO, formerly known as Caldera Linux before they bought old SCO's rights over UNIX and trademarks for their name, hired a complete idiot as CEO and changed their name to SCO while old SCO changed theirs to Tarantella, were later bought by Sun, who were later bought by Oracle.
So yeah, its messy.
No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
JX, a java operating system that does what their patent covers, was in development long before they filed that patent application.
Very well done, sir!
I would tip my hat to you but for two reasons:
1. I refuse to wear a hat unless it's a warm one during winter.(it was 100+ F[38+ C.] here in Oklahoma today, so no hat in sight)
2. Your User Name lists you as a Colonel, and I only ever made it to Corporal...**twice, and still came out as a Private, First Class[PFC]!
So, I hereby salute you, proper-like, Colonel, sir.
I am curious what comes about with their claimed Java patents, but I am personally getting tired of this circus.
Daryl and company reminds me more and more of a regional, severe cockroach infestation every day, just laughing at the exterminators since they have somewhere else to move to/change company names, etc.
This is a prime example of where corporations are not 'real' individuals/people, even though US law treats them as such at other times.
It seems like evidence that corporations have undue influence in politics here. (how much does a congressman or senator cost now days?)
I wonder how this will play out, and what effect it will have on cases like this whole SCO circus in the future.(I imagine it will not affect this specific case)
Sorry for the ranting, but an intelligent discussion seems to be a rare thing on /. anymore, so I had to try!
**US Army claimed I did/could not respect Authority; I claimed that respect is earned, and thus could not respect assholes and idiots...rank be-damned. They 'won' the argument, but I came out having learned a lot.
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Yeah, but you're overlooking Daryl's 'golden parachute' in your 'EVERYTHING!'
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