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SCO Assets Going To October Auction

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the vultures-are-circling dept.

An anonymous reader noted that the SCO Group is having a bankruptcy auction in October. The article says 'After bankruptcy in September 2007, SCO and an affiliate filed schedules listing combined assets of $14.2 million and debt totaling $5.2 million.' I wonder if we could all chip in and buy something as a sort of 'Thanks for being a pimple on the face of humanity' present.

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  1. First bid! by grub · · Score: 4, Funny


    $50 for Darl McBride's greased Yoda doll!

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    1. Re:First bid! by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

      I didn't see the rights to Unix listed in their assets for sale. Must be an oversight or something ...

    2. Re:First bid! by jusdisgi · · Score: 3, Funny

      Might be time to finally change my sig...

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    3. Re:First bid! by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Funny

      They would show it to you, but they lost it in a pile of pixie dust and unicorn manure...

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    4. Re:First bid! by Darinbob · · Score: 5, Funny

      "I went to SCO's out of business auction, and all I got was this tee-shirt they didn't own"

    5. Re:First bid! by Phat_Tony · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, I'm curious what kind of price used FUD goes for.

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  2. who would of knew by Dyinobal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who would of knew suing people is not a viable business model, I mean it works for all those other patent trolls.

    1. Re:who would of knew by XanC · · Score: 4, Funny

      You've created a unique combination of errors in your sentence. I am baffled as to what's going on in your head.

    2. Re:who would of knew by jgagnon · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's the SCO defense... where have you been?

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  3. Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But sco.com and redirect it to goat.cx (or whatever they call it)?

  4. I'll take the UNIX copyrights and SYSV rights by mysidia · · Score: 5, Funny

    For $10

    So I can start a small litigious company to aggressively defend Linux and pursue proprietary "Windows" OS vendor(s) whose names start with "M".

  5. Sco Auction? by fishthegeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes!!! Anyone have change for a dollar? It's biddin' time!

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  6. Re:Something nice for the kids by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I work about 5 minutes from their old HQ (in fact I'm going to a meeting in that office park tomorrow)...anyone in the /. community want me to pick up something nice?

    Yeah. I'll take Darl McBride's head on a spike. I'm willing to go as high as $100.

    You're outbid. "I'd also like to be there when they cut off Darl McBride's head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations of intellectual property lawyers that for some favors, even $600 is too high a price. I would look up into his lifeless eyes and wave, like this. *smileywave*. Can you the United States Trustees arrange that for me, Judge Stewart?"
    - What the CEO of Novell should have said when the case was finally closed.

  7. Why wait? by mknewman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why wait? I'll sell you several boxes full of SCO licenses, manuals and disks! ODT 3.0 on! Great for your Labor Day bonfire!

  8. As I recall by fwarren · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe my share is supposed to be $699 per CPU.

    Better put me down for several thousand dollars. I have installed Linux quite a few times

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  9. Could we buy the brand? by Qbertino · · Score: 3, Funny

    Couldn't the slashdot community buy the brand? If everybody donates a few bucks and we bid that sum for the brand and then use it to release FOSS, print cool t-shirts and use the sco website to make fun and jokes about MS, Mc Bride or whatever the f*ck his name is and his entourage. Wouldn't that be worth it? Ever since they did the caldera back-and-forth and then switched to pissing of the entire nix community the brand is dead anyway. It can't be that expensive, no?

    We could also release a debian rebrand as 'SCO Unix 2010' for 200$ a pop and donate the proceeds to EFF, FSF and any other organisation that goes against patent and IP trolls. That would actually be usefull, no?

    Just an idea.

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  10. Re:Zits by Camel+Pilot · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Pimple on the face of humanity."

    That's a rather delicate way of putting it. I confess to having a lower opinion.

    You mean like a pimple on a lower part of the anatomy?

  11. Re:Or his house? by PseudonymousBraveguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice house, but I'd fear it's haunted by the ghosts of the countless unicorns he had to kill to keep SCOX un-dead for so long.