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UnXis Group To Acquire SCO
Evil-G writes "In an email on Friday, SCO informed its partners that UnXis Inc. was chosen as the successful bidder for SCO's Unix software business on 26 January. The slightly convoluted phrasing is probably due to SCO's current reorganization under Chapter 11. On 16 February, the transaction is to be submitted for approval to the bankruptcy court where SCO's case is pending."
I thought they were just patent trolls.
Nice try Darl!
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Wow looks like all that is left of SCO are lawsuits, debt and a pending appeal. You have to wonder why in the world anyone would want to buy the business division, considering the SCO name is poison to just about anyone who knows anything about Unix. My guess is they will do anything in their power to distance themselves from the SCO name.
And will happen again.
They tried once before and the judge blew their ship out of the water.
What makes their chances any better this time?
About the only thing of value would be the service contracts, I think. Certainly no can be interested in SCO "technology" who is not already using it.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Can anybody shed any light on just who "UnXis Inc." actually is? What is going on here?
Hello, Groklaw seems to imply a relationship between the two: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20090711015440158 Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
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Reading the comments where it does not get ummm erased is some what more informative at:
http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=1911&clear=1&pt=m
Comments there are not scrutinized as much and therefore more interesting.
Does anybody know what UnXis is? Is it a real company or facade for something? Googling does not reveal much.
Ding! Dong! The witch is ... Wait what? OH DAMN IT!!!
I think Groklaw got it right... The UnXis URL http://unxis.co.uk/ takes you to a SCO page with the title "unXis - The future of UNIX is here"
doh! I was torn on whether to rate this as funny or not, but in the end, after admitting to myself that a snort did indeed escape, fresh and new or not, I admitted to myself that it was funny. Then I hit the wrong key. My apologies. But, worse, I hit troll and it certainly wasn't.
B) Eliminate all the stupid users. This is frowned upon by society.
Apparently someone at SCO just finished playing Kingdom Hearts 2?
On Dasher, on Prancer, on Comet and Unixen? Or more like Boxen, maybe?
In all seriousness, Unixes is what I hear most often, with no regard given to its correctness. I think Unices sounds best, though it kinda comes off sounding like an acronymized UN agency. Your mileage may vary.
I read UnXis as "unctuous":
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unctuous
Adjective
unctuous
1. Oily or greasy.
2. Rich, lush, intense, with layers of concentrated, soft, velvety flavor.
3. Profusely polite, especially unpleasantly so and insincerely earnest.
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Take a look at the "about us" page: UNXIS - About Us
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it looks like SCO is trying to split off their still profitable software business from the dead and deader lawsuit business so when the whole thing gets dissolved by bankruptcy their creditors are left holding and empty bag.
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Normally I would post some information here that's relevant to the current squabble, some stuff that equates to the ultimate decimation of SCO and their trolling ways. But that's a foregone conclusion. Dissolution is waiting for SCO, and the only interesting thing about it is the way they do it.
But that is settled, so if I want to educate and inform I have to go further afield. One of those ways is to teach folk about Ransom Love.
You see, Ransom was a Linux geek, fully into the ecosystem. He understood why this would win, though he was ahead of his time by a decade. His company (caldera) made a Linux distro and it was seen for a while as the fusion of commercial VS free. He hit his IPO at the peak of the .com era, and for a time his company was worth billions of dollars. He looked at this and said, "well, if we're worth so much, why don't we buy Unix, which is worth so little today?" He was a true geek and admired the Unix in a way most of those who read this can't. And that was his undoing. He might have done it, but time and market forces blocked him.
You see, the Unix Way isn't a software product. It's not a bulk of code. It's not a block of copyrights. It's a philosophy. It can't be owned, any more than the Scientific Method can be owned.
So he bought it, and suffered therefrom. He's an IT geek for the Mormon church now. He'll carry what might-have-been to his dieing day, but he should let it go. He reached for a ring that was not there.
Today mobile is taking over the IT revolution from desktops. The dominant forces are a derivation of BSD Unix (iOS) and Linux in the form of Android. Ransom was right. He was just too early, and some day we'll grant him his rightful place in the pantheon of tech visionaries. For now he suffers the fate of a local prophet, which is to say a local prophet is always stoned.
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maybe the see an opportunity is sue ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1vH2rjUshk
SCO (which is bankrupt) wants to sell itself to UnXis (which is closely related). But the bankrupcy court will decide on feb 16th.
The summary is from a SCO press release. And SCO are... uhm... lying bastards?
Go and read Groklaw.
This man (and I use the term loosely,) has a major hard-on for Linux and, like a rabid dog, he's not going to unclench his jaws from the smoke he's holding until somebody puts him down.
I can see him at the rense.com studios, well into his eighties, yelling into some one else's microphone, trying to get people to give a shit.
He's just there for comic relief, to fill the air time between the commercials,, like the conspiracy theorists, the Hitler sympathizers and the other nuts who are paraded out to soak up the minutes.
Its sad really.
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I suspect that Darl has a pile of cash stowed away in a bank on the Cayman Islands. I think he's a goddamn fucking asshole, but he is not stupid. He did all that bullshit because someone paid him to do it. Of course, this will remain speculation given the tight lips at the banks on the Cayman Islands. It will never be proven, since it was all probably handled through trusted middlemen. Well, maybe some pissed off bank employee will pass something off to WikiLeaks, but I would not bother to hold my breath waiting for that one.
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You do remember that most of that SCO money that was pissed away on legal delaying tactics went to Darl's brother don't you?
It was a two man scam.
Linux was just the brand of the company car, IBM was the wall and Darl's brother's legal firm was the panel shop that did the work at a huge markup. Huge amounts of money funnelled out and no need to hide it.
The entire thing really had nothing to do with linux and was just a scam on the SCO shareholders with a possible bit of pump and dump on the side.
Boy, Slashdot is really fired up on this one. I'm pretty sure the judge is going to slap them down for trying to pawn off the lawsuit to a deeper pocket.
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97 comments so far, and no "I hope you paid your $400 licensing fees, you cocksmoking teabaggers!" troll nostalgia yet?
For shame, Slashdot, for shame.
If it's in you sig, it's in your post.
That's because you are an ignorant cunt. They owned unix and linux you know.
I think he's just using it as an excuse to avoid paying his $699 license fee. Must be some sort of cock-smoking teabagger.
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02.06.11
The UNIX Battle Moves to Former SCO Executives (Who Own unXis Domains)
Summary: SCO gets more money for anti-Linux litigation, thanks to an alleged purchase from an entity tied to former SCO managers
http://techrights.org/2011/02/06/hans-bayer-unxis-payola/
has a major hard-on for Linux and, like a rabid dog, he's not going to unclench his jaws from the smoke he's holding... yelling into some one else's microphone... Hitler
Ding! You win the coveted George Orwell Octopus In The Melting Pot Award for Gratuitious Weirding of Metaphors.
You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC
I would like to than the members of the academy, my parents and the kids upstairs from me for giving me the incentive for mixing metaphors with such abandon.
I look forward to many more chances to delight my audience in the coming years.
[three hour speech elided]
Once again, thank you.
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