December 28, 2007 2:38 PM PST
SCO Group gets the boot from Nasdaq
The Nasdaq market has delisted The SCO Group, the Linux-seller-turned-Linux-litigant now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The Lindon, Utah-based company's shares were taken off the Nasdaq because of the bankruptcy proceedings, the company said Thursday in a statement. The company had appealed Nasdaq's decision to do so but lost its appeal on December 21, the company said in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company filed for bankruptcy protection in the wake of years of steadily declining Unix revenue and a court ruling in August that crippled its legal argument that its proprietary Unix technology is used in open-source Linux. A court ruled Novell still holds the Unix copyrights.
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Guess a certain software company will have to go find another floundering company-that-by-the-way-has-unix-products to fund.
I'm thinking not too many will want to take a chance at getting splattered so thoroughly or publicly like SCO did...
Guess the boys in Redmond will have to figure out some other way to spread the FUD, eh?
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Any Unix code that is in Linux is of the BSD variety and thus no one can sue due to the BSD license.
The only thing Novell would accomplish by pulling a SCO is that they would be irreparably damaged. They already blundered in epic proportions by getting into bed with that disease known as MS. Which is a shame since Novell has the best OS on the planet.
Novell can assert its "property" rights and it would affect Linux in no way whatsoever. Of course, much of Novells business is in Linux, so this move would be a double cut to its own throat.
have any "protected" SysV code in it.
Too bad you aren't. ;)
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theres a lesson in this ...
Too bad they can't sue their lawers for bad advice, since they're the only ones who gained anything from this fiasco.
Notice you can't spell fiasco without sco?
SCO and its board KNEW they had no case BEFORE they filed.
- I hope MSFT gets delisted....
- by JCPayne December 31, 2007 10:57 AM PST
- They're another one of those companies that whine about, "You're using my patents, but we wont tell you which ones of our so-called patents you are infringing."
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