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So, who is this SCO now? | 244 comments | Create New Account
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Believe it or not, SCO pops its head up again ~pj
Authored by: AntiFUD on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 04:38 PM EDT
Is it SCO's birthday or something?

10 year-old cases shouldn't be allowed to play in Federal Courts without posting
a bond of Beeelions.

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Believe it or not, SCO pops its head up again ~pj
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 04:49 PM EDT
Geez... Someone must have shares in a popcorn company. ;-)


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Let's count the Judges
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 04:59 PM EDT

    Judge Kimball - original
    Judge Campbell
    Judge Waddoups
    Judge Sam
    Judge Benson
    Judge Nuffer
That's a lotta Judges to be going through.

If the wikkipedia article is correct. There's only three Judges left to pick up the baton:

    Jenkins
    Shelby
    Stewart
Not much time left for SCOg before some Judge will have to respond to them :)

RAS

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Believe it or not, SCO pops its head up again ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 05:06 PM EDT
And just after they finished shredding those "old business"
documents too... but I don't imagine THAT would have anything to do with their
renewed bravado.

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Off topic.
Authored by: darkonc on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 05:37 PM EDT
Place off topic posts here...

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They do have a point...
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 05:59 PM EDT
On the one hand, I am amused to see SCO twisting slowly in the wind, approaching
the inevitable Chapter 7, running out of money to even pay lawyers to appear in
court for them. In fact, I kind of view this farce as a game of chicken between
the District Court in Utah and the Bankruptcy Court in Delaware: "You want
us to revisit that pile of rubbish? You won't declare Chapter 7 like any sane
court would do? Well, don't think we're going to waste our time hearing it. We
can stall longer than SCO will have money."

On the other hand, SCO really does have a point. A year and a half to even get
a motion heard on whether they can reopen the case? That seems unreasonably
slow, even by the pace of District Court actions. (Which makes it seem like the
District Court is in fact deliberately stalling - maybe I'm not just being
cynical in the previous paragraph. The only other possibility is that SCO has
had a really bad streak of luck with respect to judge availability. Couldn't
happen to a more deserving group.)

MSS2

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News Picks thread
Authored by: darkonc on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 06:35 PM EDT
Here is where we ignore SCO and talk about the rest of the
world.

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I think I have just one question.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 06:44 PM EDT
Who is still left at SCO? Anybody, anybody?

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Fantasy fiction
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 06:47 PM EDT
Until this moment I never believed in zombies.

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I wonder how many Judges read Groklaw?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 07:26 PM EDT
That probably explains the endless recusals.
DIE SCO DIE !

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Those who didn't object
Authored by: BJ on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 07:28 PM EDT
... to SCO's recent destruction of its business
records will have to do without my outrage in
this.
Sorry. There's only 25 hours in a day.

bjd


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Zombies never die
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 07:38 PM EDT
This is the lawsuit that never ends,
it goes on and on my friends.
Someone started it not knowing what it was,
And now it goes on and on because...

[repeat ad nauseum]

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I guess they think they have shredded all the incriminating evidence now
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 08:19 PM EDT
With the incriminating evidence shredded, it's time for one more try.

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Somehow Monty Python comes to mind
Authored by: AH1 on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 08:59 PM EDT
I am actually surprised that the request didn't include the words "Make
them come back so I can bite their legs off." In reality that seems to be
all that is left of TSG.

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Believe it or not, SCO pops its head up again ~pj
Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 01:40 AM EDT
Can we bring back tarring and feathering just once? I'd be happy to contribute
some tar. They can supply the feathers from their flock of "flying"
pigs.

Then they need to be run out of town on a rail.

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Someone has money to burn...
Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 04:10 AM EDT
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So, who is this SCO now?
Authored by: kh on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 04:17 AM EDT
What relationship to the old SCO are they?

Do they still own anything? Apart from some possibly mythical right to sue?

Do they actually produce anything, do anything?

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Obligatory quote...
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 04:54 AM EDT

"It's not dead, it's just resting"

For those not familiar with that quote, it's the Dead Parrot Sketch. -pm

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Believe it or not, SCO pops its head up again ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 05:08 AM EDT
If the destruction of the business records has been done then how can SCO bring
a new case. The records are destroyed so what evidence can they use. (I am sorry
I do not understand the law in this area.) If they found something new then
surely there maybe a case for not making it available during discovery and then
if they have the evidence, so claimed, then they perhaps did not destroy all the
documents but only selected ones.

All seems to be too a bit too convenient.

About time this was put to bed. I am glad I do not have shares or would have
even considered buy shares. I have a theory about "honesty in
business" and this on the surface of it seems a classic case.

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Ring Around the Rosie with SCO?
Authored by: TheMole on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 05:36 AM EDT
Ah, what a beautifully subtle reference, PJ!

When, as a young lad we sang this nursery rhyme at school, it was explained that
the words date back to London in 1665 and refer to the symptoms of plague.....

RA

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Believe it or not, SCO pops its head up again ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 06:36 AM EDT
The Rasputin of the American business world.

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Frivolous remarks...
Authored by: polymath on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 07:07 AM EDT
How do you spell zombie? SCO

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keep in mind...
Authored by: mcinsand on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 11:44 AM EDT
How long have we been waiting for SCOX to produce the contents of Blepp's
briefcase? 1 year on the motion is relatively speedy, in comparison. I can't
believe that it's taken this long to produce even a few lines of the 'mountains
of code,' and I mean a few lines that were not improperly copied from BSD.

mc

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Is that pops it's head up or rather pulls it out...
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 05:48 PM EDT
...only to re-insert it?

Good LORD... You'd think they'd have figured this out by now.

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New take on the old handiman's logic
Authored by: Chris Cogdon on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 09:29 PM EDT
pseudocode, in lieu of a flowchart:

if thing.moves:
    if not thing.should_move:
        if thing.moving_on_own_volition:
              thing.apply ( shotgun )
        else:
                thing.apply ( duct_tape )
else:
    if thing.should_move:
          thing.apply ( wd40 )

You would not believe how long it took me to get the indenting right!

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Believe it or not, SCO pops its head up again ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 29 2013 @ 12:34 AM EDT
Just curious, what would the burden of proof be to re-open the case? What sort
of grounds would serve as the basis to deny the motion?

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The cheek of them!
Authored by: elronxenu on Tuesday, April 02 2013 @ 04:02 AM EDT

With all the delays, legal dancing and running-away SCO did, I find it terribly cheeky that they should now ask the court to please hurry up. If SCO had felt an urgency way back when, they would still have some assets left for IBM to win.

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