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SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block

Posted by timothy on from the neck-is-slender-executioner-very-skilled dept.

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."

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  1. Can they do that? by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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?

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  2. Microsoft Should Buy Them by smartin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They could use a decent operating system to sell

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    1. Re:Microsoft Should Buy Them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      In many ways, it's still a better UNIX than Mac OS X currently is.

    2. Re:Microsoft Should Buy Them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Cygwin on windows is a better unix than OSX is.

    3. Re:Microsoft Should Buy Them by Alien+Being · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I always read their willingness to pay differently than you.

      1. MS is so freaking huge that it would be stupid to not pay chump change for the "rights" to a major chunk of worldwide computing technology.

      2. By paying, they "legitimized" SCO's claims and thereby helped to put a big question mark on the viability of Linux.

      3. They were also backdooring money to SCO in furtherance of #2.

      You can spin it any way you want but it was never anything more than racketeering by SCO and MS.

  3. Re:don't forget to pay your $699 license fee by grub · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sheesh, the mods have short memories and/or no sense of humour.

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  4. As long as we're selling software we don't own by Zeek40 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would anyone like to buy the rights to OS/2 products systems and services from me?

  5. They are trying to get bought by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    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.

  6. Propagation by carrier+lost · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe Paul Allen will buy them.

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  7. Re:First Bid! by sconeu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    SCOXQ already has a buyer in mind (probably Yarro), or they wouldn't do this auction.

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  8. Re:don't forget to pay your $699 license fee by bsDaemon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    yeah, or maybe a post comprised entirely of "you cocksmoking teabaggers" is just sort of trollish?

  9. Re:Let's bid on it by drfreak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not a SCO Unix guru by any stretch of the imagination, but having used it casually for years I don't see anything in it of value which does not already exist in Linux or the BSDs.

    I think Darl McBride had the same thought. In choosing litigation over innovation, to quote the guardian of the Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: "He chose poorly."

  10. Re:Let's bid on it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Dude, that's worth at least $100.

  11. What SCO's selling... by rnturn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... 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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