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SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch)
Linux-Watch
reports
that York Capital Management is interested in buying parts of the bankrupt
SCO.
"No one would buy this plot element in a TV drama like Boston Legal, but The SCO Group claims it has a buyer lined up, a subsidiary of York Capital Management that wants to buy its Unix business and associated Linux lawsuits.
One might well ask, "What business?" SCO is in danger of being delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange; it's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; it's lost all claims to the Unix IP (intellectual property) to Linux rival Novell; and its Unix business continues to decline and lose money. Who would want to buy such a company's assets?"
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SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch) Posted Oct 25, 2007 20:31 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Maybe they want the customer list. A list of gullible people with money could be a valuable asset to a business. :-)
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch) Posted Oct 25, 2007 21:12 UTC (Thu) by richo123 (guest, #24309) [Link] Absolutely! If some of these were prepared to fork out on a "linux license" imagine what else they would fork out for.
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch) Posted Oct 26, 2007 19:32 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] Maybe they're buying a malpractice cause of action against the Boies firm.
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch) Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:11 UTC (Fri) by Mithrandir (subscriber, #3031) [Link] I love PJ's euphemism: Waldo. Who can spot him here? :)Waldo == MS Seriously, just track all the money back to its source.
Follow the money Posted Oct 26, 2007 7:34 UTC (Fri) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link] > Seriously, just track all the money back to its source. The government mint? Oh, you mean *seriously*. In that case, it's back to the customers who purchased Microsoft products. Or their employers. Or *their* customers. Where should we stop? Hmm, actually I suppose it *does* lead back to the mint.
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch) Posted Oct 26, 2007 13:45 UTC (Fri) by wilreichert (subscriber, #17680) [Link] I would have figure by now MS would have achieved everything it had set out to accomplish via SCO and had just hung them out to dry.
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch) Posted Oct 27, 2007 17:22 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link] """ Seriously, just track all the money back to its source. """ Seriously, PJ's ongoing game of "Find Waldo" seriously damages her credibility. The flimsy evidence that she presents to support her assertions that she has "found" Waldo should embarrass her. The fact that it doesn't seem to makes matters worse.
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch) Posted Nov 1, 2007 12:51 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link] As I understand it (not reading the site with any degree of regularity), the credibility of Groklaw and PJ lies in straightforward documentation and explanation of legal issues and processes. Posting falsified documents or deliberately misdescribing their legal ramifications would be injurious to the site's credibility. Has this happened?
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch) Posted Dec 13, 2007 1:58 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link] ...guess not.
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch) Posted Oct 26, 2007 21:50 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link] Gomez Addams, maybe?
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch) Posted Nov 1, 2007 14:43 UTC (Thu) by trutkin (guest, #3919) [Link] What's so far fetched about this? I'm sure you could get their business for cheap and that there is some company willing to take a gamble on it.
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