Comments on: SCO Group files for bankruptcy protection

A month after a devastating legal ruling, The SCO Group says it's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while it reorganizes, and all its court cases are on hold.

[`WarpKat]

WOOOOOOOOOO!

THERE
IS
A
GOD!

AND HE/SHE/IT IS GREAT!

[imacpwr]

May they die a slow and painful death..

:-)

[HunterA3]

Sweet

Just one step away from being history. Once that happens, I can finally shred my OpenLinux CDs. :D

[sjsobol]

Darl McBride knew long ago

that he had an unwinnable case. I'd love to see him thrown in jail for shareholder fraud, but I don't think anyone could make that stick. At the very least, he personally should be the target of a shareholder lawsuit, since he screwed them over pretty nicely.

[Penguinisto]

Agreed.

He and his cohorts seriously need to be Enron'ed, hard. It'll stand as an example to anyone else foolish enough to file fake lawsuits based on vapor and bluster.

/P

[alflanagan]

Been bankrupt a long time

Morally and ethically bankrupt, anyway.

When do the multitude of outrageously false statements by McBride & Co. catch up to them? It seems from the facts that shareholders have a great cause for suit. Even worse, false statements that inflate your stock price could constitute fraud.

[finman65]

Darl = Frank Burns

He needs a toe tag labeled "Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt".

[Penguinisto]

Linux: 1 MSFT: 0

SCO: Good riddance to bad rubbish.

MSFT: go ahead - try it... you're next ;)

/P

[Penguinisto]

Heh - time to sing a song...

SCO sometimes reminds me of a certain song... many of you may already know it. For those that don't...
(shamelessly ripped off from The Dead Milkmen's "Stuart", from the album "Beelzebubba".)

You know what, Laura DiDio? I LIKE YOU! You're not like the other people, here, in the Lindon trailer park!

Oh, nonono, don't go get me wrong. They're fine people, they're good Americans. But they're content to sit back, fire up their Windows XP boxes and surf a little Internet on AOL, maybe chat a little on MSN. They're good, fine people, Stuart. But they don't know ... what the penguins are doing to our code! [http://...|http://...]

You know that Johnny Werzner kid - the kid who ports apps in the neighborhood? He's a fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack, but I don't believe it. Anyway, for his 10th birthday, all he wanted was a Sourceforge page. "Dad, get me a Sourceforge account. I'll never ask for anything else as long as I live". So the guy breaks down and set him up with a Sourceforge page.

Anyway, 10:30, the other night, I go over next door, and there's the Werzner kid, looking up something on the 'net. I say, "What are you looking for?" He says "I'm looking for the source code to add to this new app."

I said, "Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick! Everybody knows the source code is proprietary! Under NDA! In a vault! Why the hell do you think they call it 'source code' anyway!?"

Now Laura, do you think a kid like that is going to know what the penguins are doing to the code!? I first became aware of this about ten years ago, the summer my oldest boy, Darl Jr. died. You know that trade show comes into town every year? Well this year IBM came through with a Demo called The Parser. The man said, "Keep your links, and dependencies, inside The Parser at all times!" But not Darl Jr - he was a DAAAREDEVIL, just like his old man! He was banging out code, saying "Hey everybody, Look at me! Look at me!" POW! He was decapitated! They found his head over by the Microsoft .NET concession! A few days after that, I open up the mail - and there's a pamphlet in there - from Pueblo, Colorado ! And it's addressed to Darl Jr. And it's entitled: "Do you know what the penguins are doing to our code!?"

Now, Laura! If you look at the soil around any large US city where there's a large underground kernel hacker population. Portland, Oregon - perfect example. Look at the soil around Portland, Stuart... You can't build on it; you can't grow anything in it. The government says it's due to poor farming. But I know what's really going on, Laura. I know it's the penguins! They're in it with the aliens! They're building landing strips for code-stealing Penguins! I swear to God!

You know what, Laura DiDio? I like you! You're not like the other people, here in the Lindon trailer park...

(only slightly modified from the original:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-08-26-007-26-OP-BZ-LL-0002
)

Cheers!

/P

[boratebomber]

How do we add grease to the skids?

This needs to go beyond chapter 11 to 7 as quickly as possible. SCO is not in business to serve their customers anyway so it won't be a big loss.

[mbenedict]

Ironic victory for Microsoft

SCO's loss is Novell's gain, which only benefits its largest patent-sharing partner: Microsoft. How ironic.

[`WarpKat]

Not Necessarily

If anything, this is a black eye for MS. They funded BayStar, which then funded SCO. Despite claims to the contrary by MS, we all know pretty well what their intentions were.

This isn't the last we've heard of this show since MS has more hands to stick up the buns of potential puppets...

*cough*ISO*cough*

[Commander_Spock]

Wow!

It is "Tuxedo" Clad Birds' Party Time and not a "Warp Engine" on line!

"eComStation 2.0 RC2"

"This version of eComStation 2.0 is the second Release Candidate, no big changes or additions will be added before the GA version"

http://www.ecomstation.com/ecomstation20.phtml?url=nls/en/content/version2_rc2.html&title=eComStation%202.0%20RC2%20info

Party Until All The Ice Melts!

[t8]

Spocks post is SPAM

I will be reporting it.

[WJeansonne]

SCO was a red herring for the Linux crowd

Now, the battle royal begins with MS. They had better start sweating bullets if MS asserts its patent rights and its definitely got em'. Schlocklaw will really be eating crow too, LOL.

[The_Decider]

Yeah right

MS doesn't have a case so all it can do is spew FUD at record levels. All you can do is throw out vague insinuations. Why?

Because even your boss, monkey boy Ballmer can't show any evidence.

MS thought it could keep its hands clean and just fund SCO. Novell handed SCO its ass.

If MS wants to go down this same road they are welcome. The result of such a foolish move would be the total(or near enough) invalidation of all the BS patents that MS has.

[Linux Now]

Not Good News

... good news would be that the blighters went out of business altogether. As it is, the lowlifes get to hang around awhile longer, stirring up muck from the bottom of the pond.

[The_Decider]

They are living on borrowed time

Trading of SCO shares has been suspended and it probably won't be long until NASDAQ de-lists them.

Their rep is worse then Microsoft's, they have nothing of value to sell. They will likely be forced into chapter 7.

Hopefully, McBride and his cohorts end up in jail for everything they have done. Especially because he allowed the suit to be filed, even though he knew that SCO had no case before they filed it.

I guess he thought no one would notice that the contract explicitly stated that copyrights were not being transferred. He also apparently thought that no one would notice that no paperwork was ever filed to transfer the copyrights. Then of course is the hilarious episode where SCO asked Novell to transfer the copyrights a few years ago, yes the same ones that SCO claims were transfered in 1995.

This case is the most amusing courtroom show in history.

[Maccess]

Novell Buyout

It's to protect them from Novell collecting all the licensing fees they got for the Unix they didn't own.

A realistic outcome for this is that Novell will buy them out using the claim to seize whatever remains of any Unix IP.

[Mergatroid Mania]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of fellas

Serves then right.

Bunch of pompous *****.

[umbrae]

You Stole my TITLE!

:)

Perfect.