SCO, which went bankrupt after an unfavorable ruling four years ago and has auctioned off all of its assets, exists now only as a vehicle for the quixotic lawsuit against IBM for misappropriation of its Unix source code. Apparently, the 2010 ruling left a small opening, because the suit is back. To the extent that they operate at all, the company’s leader is now a well-respected former federal judge named Edward Cahn. Officially, he’s a Chapter 11 trustee, which means that, in bankruptcy, the company’s lenders or investors can appoint someone to oversee a reorganization and essentially direct the company toward activities that will maximize the recovery of the debt. Cahn’s sole responsibility is to see if he can wring any money out of SCO’s remaining asset (the lawsuit), which means that this circus will continue until the lenders decide that the likelihood of a settlement doesn’t justify the legal costs.
Always makes me think of this:
http://www.linux.org.ru/forum/talks/373795
LOL, that was a nice laugh!
You.Gotta.Be.Fucking.Kidding.Me…
Damn. It really is the zombie apocalypse.
SCO is like cancer… they were just in remission.
Is it personal this time? That might make more popcorn-worthy.
It also happens to bring back to memory this song of “Kajagoogoo and Limahl”:
> Never Ending Sto-o-ory
> Ahaha-ahaha-ahaha
> Never Ending Sto-o-ory
I now know what SCO hears when it wakes up…
SCO reminds me of a couple of former employees in Access Inc. (a software company in Japan) 3 years ago: cannot follow the trends in the industry.
Just think! If SCO hadn’t been so overpriced in 1990, Mr. Torvalds might have just bought a license for his 386, and never felt the need to create his on Unix variant.
I mean, in the early ’90’s, SCO was selling SCO Unix for more than $1,700 – this didn’t include a TCP/IP stack or X-Windows – those would’ve brought the total cost to almost $5,000.
We no longer have Groklaw.net
[movie-trailer-voice]
Whenever a villain rises from the depths of hell
Whenever evil threatens life as we know it
It has to face being reported on by its ancient nemesis
GROKLAW
[fade out to black]
Its rather strange while SCO is bankrupt – SCO Unix is still supported/sold/developed.
Interestingly they are also re-branding FreeBSD
http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_08_20-engineering_nginx (Interview with Eric Le Blan)
http://www.xinuos.com / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinuos
Thanks for those links, that’s interesting.
What got me was the quote:
the most popular UNIX® operating system for the Intel® platform — in the world.
I’d like to see the statistics on that.
They’re an American IT company. Every American IT company ever incorporated is the undisputed leader in their field from the start.
linux isn’t unix. I’m not sure how they explain away BSD or solaris…
or MacOS X
Yosemite is UNIX insofar as it passed conformance for the Single Unix Specification version 3.
Everything from Leopard until Yosemite (with the exception of Lion) has been submitted and passed.
So, yeah, it’s Unix.
IIRC Lion was originally submitted, but allowed to lapse while it was still current.
So, yeah, OS X is the most popular Unixâ„¢ on the Intel platform by far, much more so than SCO’s products or Solaris and derivatives (which, the derivatives aren’t Unixâ„¢, but seeing as they can claim a codebase derived from AT&T Unix, whereas the BSDs intentionally replaced all of the AT&T code…)
So, “litigation rights” is something that can be sold and bought during bankrupcies.
Nonsense like this would ‘ve been funny if it didn’t affect companies actually making stuff.
That’s not quite right. Their is still SCO intellectual property. Someone owns it. Someone still has the right to pursue litigation on behalf of that. The courts have decided repeatedly that one entity can not assign another entity the right of litigation on behalf of intellectual property without actually owning that intellectual property.
There have been a few “enterprising” companies that have tried to work with record companies to sue copyright infringes of their works. But they can’t. They’d have to own the copyrights themselves.
SCO is the first of what I’ll call Patent Zombies. A patent troll resurrected from the dead to continue to try extorting money for something that was proven that they don’t own.