SCO rises from the dead (Computerworld) [LWN.net]

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that bankrupt SCO may have a buyer. "I've never been a fan of horror-movie series where no matter what happens to the baddie, such as Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th movies, he's up and ready to kill again in the next sequel. So, you can imagine just how pleased I am to see that SCO, just when it looked like it was dead as a doornail, came up with a buyer at the 11th hour and 59th minute. According to reports on Groklaw, Gulf Capital Partners LLC, a group formed by Stephen Norris of Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners, a private-equity firm, has offered to buy SCO, just as the company faced the end of the bankruptcy road. If the deal is real and goes through, SCO's nearly dead Unix business will continue, and, oh the pain of it all, so will its zombie-like lawsuits against IBM, Novell, and other Linux companies."

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SCO rises from the dead (Computerworld)

Posted Jun 17, 2009 17:21 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link] (5 responses)

Is this _NOT_ the first time Stephen Norris and Gulf Capital Partners have tried to buy SCO (or merely its assets)? Those names sound familiar...

SCO rises from the dead (Computerworld)

Posted Jun 17, 2009 18:59 UTC (Wed) by kirkengaard (guest, #15022) [Link] (4 responses)

keep reading.

SCO rises from the dead (Computerworld)

Posted Jun 17, 2009 21:14 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (3 responses)

In the article he suggest that Microsoft is behind that funding.

I honestly don't understand what interest would they have. I don't see how SCO would gain any reasonable credibility.

Or to be more precise: there are more effective ways to spend the marketing budget of Microsoft.

SCO rises from the dead (Computerworld)

Posted Jun 17, 2009 21:31 UTC (Wed) by grantma (subscriber, #5225) [Link] (2 responses)

Don't want to sound crass, but maybe when some one who is deluded talks to a gullible naive investor who does not have much sense, things like this happen.

Or maybe I can go about the philosophical fact of multiple realities, which in the interpretive paradigm are all equally valid.

In the end they will stop self-perpetuating as everyone comes to their senses as a consensus reality starts to take hold. &-)

ie, Fools will believe other fools until they all hit the wall of common sense.

The wall of common sense, I like that

Posted Jun 17, 2009 22:30 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Quite often reality can self-perpetuate through a "consensus reality" on a completely deluded base. The wall of common sense is surprisingly far. You need only look at such crazy notions as modern art, economy or medicine to see how long it can take to reach it, if at all.

Sometimes the craziest folks are the only ones who see clearly through it all. Monty Python's Flying Circus fans will appreciate how true this can get to be.

Investors are a specially gullible bunch. In this case they have been obviously ripped off, but it will take many years for them to realize it.

common sense

Posted Jun 18, 2009 1:57 UTC (Thu) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

I think you mean, hit the wall of reality.

For "common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen" (Mark Twain).

SCO rises from the dead (Computerworld)

Posted Jun 19, 2009 6:41 UTC (Fri) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]

Mr Norris and co are going to have to be (persueded ) to go away are they not .

Lets have this dead in the water bunch of connmen dead and burried for good before the end of yet another year