SCO Preps Appeals Against Novell and IBM

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like SCO will be emerging from the almost dead soon, with new owners and $100 million on board. SNCP is adjusting the business strategy, according to this report on TG Daily, SCO is saying goodbye to CEO Darl McBride and is also preparing to appeal the summary judgments in the cases against Novell and IBM. If you have thought the chapter was closed, think again. Those $100 million can go a long way (even if SCO has to pay 17% interest on it)."

Dear Novel and IBM

[Strange Ranger]

It looks like SCO will be emerging from the almost dead soon, with new owners and ... is also preparing to appeal the summary judgments in the cases against Novell and IBM.

This time please use holy water and lawyers made of silver.

Why? I just wanna know why?

[gmac63]

This is like a bad Ed Wood movie. "Plan 10 from SCO"

Re:What the hell?

[Smackheid]

Who keeps giving/lending these clowns money?

Wouldn't it be more correct to call them zombies at this point? Vampires? The undead?

Something like that.

Re:Why? I just wanna know why?

[jd]

I think it's Plan 11 from Outer SCO.

Penny Arcade

[Bob54321]

I think this [penny-arcade.com] comic applies here too...

Re:I can live with that

[jk379]

At least with a lottery ticket you have some odds of winning...

Re:What the hell?

[Kaenneth]

Undead clown lawyers... I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight.

Re:Now that's a deal.

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn, SCO is like a villain in a horror movie where you can never kill them. Maybe a wooden stake through the heart or silver bullet will do the trick?

Re:Dear Novel and IBM

[greg1104]

The logistics problem with that is lawyers can't survive exposure to the holy water either.

Re:SCO doesn't have anything yet

[Anonymous Coward]

Like there are serious players who think SCO's IP claims have merit.

Maureen O'Gara?

The only thing SCO needs to prep

[microbee]

is a death will.

Re:I can live with that

[Alsee]

Heay, there's always the possibility that the judge will get a brain tumor and rule in favor of SCO before running off to New York City to take up naked mime breakdancing.

Investor Brochure:
Invest in SCO, a New Businessplan for the New Economy.
Give us money and we'll make all your dreams come true.

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Re:I can live with that

[Alsee]

using your credit card to buy lottery tickets

Remember kids, never commit suicide....

until after you've maxed out your credit cards and triple checked all your lottery ticket results.

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Re:poetic justice

[Alsee]

Ok Tux, you lead the way into SCO headquarters while I look for clues in this refrigerator!
Ruh-uh, Reejay! Roo rarey!
Not even for a Tuxsnack?
Roh-ray!

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Re:Why? I just wanna know why?

[Daengbo]

Plan 10 ... Yeah, cause Plan 9 from SCO would certainly suck much more than the real deal [bell-labs.com].

Re:Dear Novel and IBM

[Raul654]

So what you're saying is, with one well placed spray of holy water, they have the ability to mow down SCO and a pack of (their own) lawyers at the same time? And this is bad how?

Re:Why? I just wanna know why?

[Chrisq]

Careful. They will be claiming that plan 9 [wikipedia.org] infringes their copyright in hundreds of unspecified places.

Re:Dear Novel and IBM

[number11]

with one well placed spray of holy water, they have the ability to mow down SCO and a pack of (their own) lawyers at the same time? And this is bad how?

The problem is, we're dealing with technology. Holy water has salt in it (I suppose to keep it from getting moldy or something). Salt water is corrosive. Spray salt water over your keyboards and servers and stuff, and bad things happen.

I know, I had a client who did that. But at least when it was all over, the gear wasn't possessed any more.

I don't think that will be enough for SCO.

Re:Dear Novel and IBM

[ozmanjusri]

But at least when it was all over, the gear wasn't possessed any more.

Wouldn't it have been easier just to uninstall Windows?

Re:Doesn't the sale have to be approved first?

[Captain Nitpick]

No kidding. And here we all thought PJ was going to have to start looking for a new job soon.

Obviously PJ arranged the new funding so Groklaw could continue operating.

Re:What about Darl?

[TropicalCoder]

What about Darl? I've heard he'll be made a Microsoft Fellow, in recognition to his outstanding contributions to that company. He'll begin a new role there as a Microsoft Technology Evangelist ;-)

Re:Now that's a deal.

[Stooshie]

... It is a wonderful mockery ...

I know. There's a musical coming out on Broadway soon, I'm sure. I think it's called: "S-C-O, Way to Go!" with such hits as "It's a wonderful mockery", "It's my rights and I'll do what I what with them", "Back in the Old Routine", "Look what happened to Darl" and the big hit number "Hello Lolly!"

Re:Dear Novel and IBM

[Anonymous Coward]

No, it leaves ghosts behind...

Re:Bad summary

[gstoddart]

They won't be emerging from the almost dead, and they won't have $100M, and it's not 17%

They're still almost dead

Why am I suddenly reminded of the Princess Bride??

Miracle Max: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Montoya: What's that?
Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

Either way, hopefully SCO will soon be all dead. Because they really are a bunch of litigious bastards who are just plain annoying at this point. They don't own anything, and they never demonstrated any infringement on the stuff they claimed to own, so I don't even know how they can be appealing this.

Cheers

Re:What the hell?

[LoRdTAW]

Cant sleep, clowns will sue me
Cant sleep, clowns will sue me
Cant sleep, clowns will sue me
Cant sleep, clowns will sue me ...

Re:Now that's a deal.

[Langalf]

Damn, SCO is like a villain in a horror movie where you can never kill them. Maybe a wooden stake through the heart or silver bullet will do the trick?

Personally, I prefer the Mercedes Lackey method -- load up a pistol with alternating rounds of silver, cold iron and blessed lead, and empty the whole thing into the target. One of them is bound to be effective.

Re:Now that's a deal.

[dpilot]

Don't forget that as part of the deal, SCO gets rid of its biggest impediment, its heaviest boat-anchor, perhaps one of the most negative factors during the previous trials...

Daryl and his big moouth.

Re:Dear Novel and IBM

[Shakrai]

No, it leaves ghosts behind...

1. Burn Knoppix/Rescue CD and boot off it
2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX (or hdX)
3. Drink beer while the demons of Windows are slowly excised
4. ???
5. Profit!

Re:Now that's a deal.

[MrNiceguy_KS]

Maybe, but imagine the environmental catastrophe resulting from having anything SCO-contaminated that close to the water table. Within a year we'd have zombie lawyers popping up in the next town downstream.

Re:Now that's a deal.

[ultranova]

Within a year we'd have zombie lawyers popping up in the next town downstream.

Just make sure that that next town is Washington, and it'll be an improvement :).