SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch)
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?"
Posted Oct 25, 2007 20:31 UTC (Thu)
by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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by Mithrandir (guest, #3031)
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Waldo == MS
Seriously, just track all the money back to its source.
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by trutkin (guest, #3919)
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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)
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch)
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)
Maybe they're buying a malpractice cause of action against the Boies firm.
I love PJ's euphemism: Waldo. Who can spot him here? :)
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch)
Follow the money
> 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)
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)
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Seriously, just track all the money back to its source.
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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)
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)
...guess not.
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch)
Gomez Addams, maybe?
SCO claims it has Unix business buyer (Linux-Watch)
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.