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SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block
itwbennett writes "SCO Group announced Thursday that it plans to auction off most of its Unix assets, including 'certain UNIX system V software products and related services,' ITworld reports. 'This asset sale is an important step forward in ensuring business continuity for our customers around the world,' said Ken Nielsen, SCO chief financial officer, in a statement. 'Our goal is to ensure continued viability for SCO, its customers, employees and the Unix technology.' Interested parties must submit a bid for the assets by Oct. 5."
I thought Novel owned Unix and only licensed it to SCO, and that was already settled. How can they sell Unix if they don't own it?
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
you cocksmoking teabaggers!
Do unto others ...
They could use a decent operating system to sell
The difference between Canada and the USA is that in Canada healthcare is a right and gun ownership is a privilege.
Maybe we could all get together and chip in a buck or two to buy the assets, then open-source the whole thing.
How does that sound?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
$0. SCO doesn't have any Unix assets.
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Would anyone like to buy the rights to OS/2 products systems and services from me?
$1.73 million buys the whole company. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOXQ.PK
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
I'll just leave this here.
This will make their debt the responsebillity of the buyer and not the management, which basically had extortion as a business model.
Here's for hoping nobody shows any interest whatsoever, so SCO must close its doors. It'll be even better if the SEC starts poking around, because then ties to Microsoft will be exposed and the fireworks can start.
Unless by "assets" you mean "little asses", I don't think SCO has any. Besides which, can't Novell confiscate assets as part of the settlement of it's lawsuit? Seems to me there are a lot of interested parties that would request the judge freeze any sale of assets.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
$title =~ s/[eintux]//g
Huh? WTF?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I bid 50 quatloos on the newcomer!
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
A smoldering hole in the ground, watched by many for signs of activity leading to great destruction. Usually produces little more than some noise and gas.
Xenix anyone?
Maybe Paul Allen will buy them.
XKCD:Xeric Knowledge Comically Dispen
What are the chances that more zits will appear as a result of this sale?
I'll give 'em $5 for that silly "Unix" name, and then offer free and perpetual licenses to every open source unix-like distribution. This has been silly. Give up the name, and we'll all be using Unix, rather than the pesky name wars.
I'll give 'em another $5 for all that worthless IP, so I can grant free and perpetual licenses on that also.
...suing the pants off of anyone who mentioned the word "unix" didn't really work as a viable business model, did it? Ass clowns...
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
ill trade you some Linux ISOs for those SCO assets, you'll have to download them yourself though.
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Absolutely amazing. They haven't had a modern up-to-date system in ages, it turns out they didn't even own what they claimed to own. They got rid of the only people who had any hope of maintaining anything technically back in the '90s and they tried to defraud everyone in reach. And yet, all these years later the corpse is still twitching.
It's like the end of the horror movie when the monster shows some vague sign of life just as the credits roll.
I wonder if their "Assets" are worth less now than the total they spent on loosing lawsuits?
They seem about as profitable as mining under my couch. Probably has about the same amount of dust bunnies.
"I'll buy that for a dollar!"
What do they sell?
Cocksmoking is illegal in my state without a doctor's perscription.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
that's pretty fauxking funny/a clear statement on the state of the 'community'. 'can't GIVE it away on 2nd ave., it's in tatters', boop sha do be. ahhaha.
Once SCO gets rid of this division, what will they sell, exactly?
'This asset sale is an important step forward in ensuring business continuity for our customers around the world,' said Ken Nielsen, SCO chief financial officer, in a statement.
In other news, SCO still has customers. Not only that, customers around the world. I think that's the real story here.
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
I'd imagine this will be a hot thing to buy. You could take it, and then sue all these big Linux companies. It's a win-win situation. What could go wrong?
in honor of SCO, I demand 699 trolls, stat!
Groklaw has mention of the event, too:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100916121940186
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
you teasmoking bagcocker!
And that's when I understood it was the Loch Ness monster! I ain't givin' no god damn Loch Ness monster tree fiddy!
I'm up for this. More if necessary.
Some of this UNIX stuff has been ricocheting around the US legal system, such as it is, for decades now. SCO v Linux et al wasn't the first eruption of this nonsense. Time to retire it.
Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
May be I should get a bunch of investors to buy these assets and sue anyone using Linux.
Wonder if there is money to be made there.
Let's see, I've got $0.73 in my pocket. Think they can make change?
Hopefully their officers will be selling themselves on the street, under a pimp named Upgrayedd.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
I take it this does not include a complete set of System V (Release 4.2 or 5) source code does it?
Having never seen any AT&T Unix code newer than the reprint of Lions' A commentary on the Unix Operating System, (based on V6 - 1975) and the "ancient" Unix source from The Unix Heritage Society.
It would be purely academic and novelty, but it would be of geeky interest to have access to System V's source code.
I can see the jokes already, but folks, SCO does have customers, and technically they are around the world.
Why, just this morning Darl hopped on his Lear jet, and while flying to South America, he booted up their amazing secret new OS, OpenHole. Simultaneously, while riding a horse-drawn carriage through the streets of Magnitogorsk, the able CFO Ken also booted up OpenHole.
Listen, SCO has a track record of accurate statements, and they are living up to that reputation today, just as they have in years past. Give them a little credit, people. Just a little.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
I recall working with SCO Unix during 1996-9. The service was terrible.
To obtain drivers for new hardware was almost impossible.
I think SCO should pay its users for the damage to their brains it caused.
'Our goal is to ensure continued viability for SCO, its customers, employees and the Unix technology.'
Thats just bullocks.. They have destroyed Unix V and scammed the world. These so called exec's from SCO should be charged for destroying a legacy and scamming the entire IT world.. They belong behind bars.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
Isn't this kind of like buying a dead guy's shoes?
I used SCO when it was The Only "ix" on a PC. Linus was still pushing marbles around the playground. It is weird to read all you johnny-come-lately Linux boy's comments who were literally in diapers when SCO made the *ONLY* platform. There was NO linux, only SCO. In no way, shape or form would I defend the latest bunch of SCO executives and their legal action. The real SCO died in the 90's as another poster stated. Almost all the smart ass remarks are people who have little or NO idea that SCO was first in the "ix" movement. You will never convince me or anyone who has knowledge of SCO products that linux did not benefit from SCO developers in many ways. Many of the smart-asses are like little moron sheep. P.S. I still use SCO servers running as virtual machines to run obsolete proprietary software.
I just sent an email with my bid and I can say it was well over $100. Hope I win!
They key to your entire statement is your P.S. You use SCO to run obsolete proprietary software.
OOOOOK!
P.S. I use dBase II on CP/M so that means everyone else is a moron sheep.
P.P.S. I thought all sheep were morons!
How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
Where's the auction inventory? I'm still game for picking over SCO's ruins for anything of value, then trying to pool enough OSS money to buy and rerelease it.
Then again, just because SCO says they *own* the IP... (shit!)
I thought the legal staff was the only value add at SCO, am I missing something?
Unix, an obscure operating system developed by bored researchers in an attempt to get a better game playing experience.
What customers?
We need to get a list of the so called assets they are puting up for sale, and place bids. If everyone put a formal bid in for $1 for something, and sent them in, we'd have SCO sucking up even more cash.
The problem for SCO is that they stood still while the rest of the world advanced. While SCO might have been the only game in town, it must burn you so much that a novice OS like Linux would so quickly surpass SCO Unix in terms of performance and capability within such a short time.
You will never convince me or anyone who has knowledge of SCO products that linux did not benefit from SCO developers in many ways.
Have you been paying attention to Linux or SCO trial at all? Linux was developed in the open. And from the beginning the Linux collaborators asked for details so that they could remove any infringing material. All they got were threats. Currently the only proof of any alleged material at trial has been trivial at best. Also for a while the new SCO (formerly Caldera) released code into Linux and released a version of Linux. So yes, there might have been SCO IP in Linux but until someone shows any real proof of wrong doing, it was a bunch of outlandish and unsupported allegations by SCO.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
is a farthing still a valid form of currancy?
if so that is my bid.
1 farthing.
SCO has customers?
Does the winning bidder get to turn Daryl into his/her personal boot-licking worm ???
Just what do they own, exactly? i.e. Could I buy vi?
PS: I don't reply to ACs.
SCO own nothing!
For them to put UNIX (theirs) for sale is Fruad.
Oh... I just forgot ... SCO has nothing to do with FRUAD. LOL!
And I thought I was an old-timer.
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... is probably a bunch of old crap that's on QIC-02 tapes.
I still have bad memories of having to use SCO back in the mid/late-90s. When I left that job, I left the SCO manuals -- that I bought on my own dime -- in the bottom drawer of my desk. I couldn't bear having any evidence of having used that atrocity of a UNIX; didn't want anyone to know I'd been exposed to it. They might ask me to work with it again.
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Last I checked neither Xen nor KVM would run SCO UnixWare 7.1.1 :-(
http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1391
Watch this Heartland Institute video
I still have an old Caldera T-Shirt (Linux Expo 2000 or so) and it has the slogan:
"Caldera - Unifying Unix and Linux for Business"
With all that went down after that shirt, it is nothing short of a remarkable sentence. Still get a kick out of it each time I look at it :-)
by offering 10 pounds of steaming bat guano... I figure crap for crap is a fair trade, it's an excellent fertilizer, and after all that time with so many lawyers Darl should find guano smells damn near like perfume.
Maybe it'll be a Dutch auction.
P.S. I still use SCO servers running as virtual machines to run obsolete proprietary software.
If it's obsolete, why do you still use it?
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
This definitely qualified for what I call, "Special Awe". Normally I save this term to describe the actions of my first wife, who's logic always astounded me, but in this case, I do think we are dealing with SA. Each time SCO does something new in this game, I wonder if they are on drugs. Given that this UNix thingy has been litigated to death. The last I remember, Novell remained the rights-holder. These guys must sit around in coffee shops and see who can come up with the most outlandish claims, then they go do it. I know there are people out there with more money then brains, but even given that, only someone that liked litigation (and being hated) could pick up SCO's banner and charge forward into idiocy. Then again a group of lawyers with not enough to do could buy SCO and litigate in their spare time. At this point it seems to me that Darl's name is becoming an adjective. "He really did a Darl on that one!!". :-)