Yahoo! SCOX Review

Message ID: 294125 Posted By: drichards1953 Posted On: 2005-08-22 11:19:00 Subject: Welcome Brian! Recs: 26 Brian, I know the story of SCOG is confusing. It is a mess that only seems to get worse, on a daily basis. As Director of Research & Technology for a law firm I follow the cases for several reasons. The lawyers in the firm that handle IP issues are stunned by the case. Ten years ago I did support Unix in every way possible. It worked, worked well and was not an M$ product. Unix stagnated about five years ago making it nearly worthless to me, except for legacy purposes. Linux has come a very long way, and rightly so. You also need to understand that the management of CalderaSCO would not know a line of code if it bit them in the butt. The management of oldSCO and Microport clearly knew something about code and coding. For many of us the Caldera distro of Linux was our first exposure to commercially distributed Linux. It was good, at that time. Ha...

Message ID: 287103 Posted By: ColonelZen Posted On: 2005-08-01 13:25:00 Subject: THE END (OF SCOX) IS NEAR Recs: 16 Expect Novell to file a motion to freeze assets and attach reciepts. Perhaps this week. Funds which are likely to be found owed to Novell grossly exceed SCOX's remaining cash. Specific non-performance of a contract is one of the rare conditions where a judge in a civil case will act to immediately shut down a company (IANAL, but this is obvious). In my opinion specific non-performance may well be a claim of such a motion. At long last after running what I think has been a corrupt scam for the last two years, I can finally think that a cease of operations and bankruptcy for SCO is now a real possibility in the next 30-60 days. (All please feel free to cut and paste all or any part of this with whatever additional commentary you believe appropos to keep the headline meme - it may soon be over - on the page. It's just for fun and to aggravate t...