Zombie SCO Rises Again, Appeals Latest Ruling

from the will-it-ever-die? dept

Fri, Jul 9th 2010 3:31am — Mike Masnick

Last month, when a court ruled against SCO for the... oh heck, we've lost count... 'th time, we wondered if the whole bizarre saga might finally be over. No such luck. Hephaestus points out that SCO has, in fact, appealed. Not much to say about this one, but just shake your head in amazement. Some day, will someone please do a full case study on SCO's elaborate decade-long suicide through bad litigation choice followed by even worse litigation choice?

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Anonymous Coward, 9 Jul 2010 @ 3:50am

Hmmm...how are they getting money?

Who is paying for those legal costs?

Talking about zombies the iPhone could be next to turn into one.

http://www.physorg.com/news197831122.html
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Zauber (profile), 9 Jul 2010 @ 3:51am

Okay, somebody contact a priest and get some holy water to throw onto SCO's walking corpse. Each splash of holy water does 1d6 damage and dissolves undead targets as if it were acid.
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- Rekrul, 10 Jul 2010 @ 3:47am
  
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  You don't need a priest. Two holy water arrows to the midsection will do the trick. You can also use a single fire arrow, or even 2-3 flash bombs. :)
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abc gum, 9 Jul 2010 @ 4:43am

imho ...
The whole SCO debacle was a scam from the word go, a get rich quick scheme that included stock kiting and extortion. It is amazing that none of the perps have been prosecuted for their crimes.
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- Zauber (profile), 9 Jul 2010 @ 4:48am
  
  Re: imho ...
  Knowing the way SCO operates, it is more than likely they would try to do some legal weaseling to get out of it.
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Jul 2010 @ 5:32am

'Some day, will someone please do a full case study on SCO's elaborate decade-long suicide through bad litigation choice'

Actually, PJ over at Groklaw has been doing that all along.
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- TtfnJohn (profile), 9 Jul 2010 @ 9:26am
  
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  shhhhh, the TAM doesn't know who PJ is so she can't possibly exist!
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- BearGriz72 (profile), 9 Jul 2010 @ 8:46pm
  
  Re: (PJ over at Groklaw)
  I checked it out there is a lot of good information. Thanks!
  
  Check out the SCO Pages at Groklaw
  And this is very cool SCO Soup2Nuts
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NullOp, 9 Jul 2010 @ 5:37am

SCO?
SCO! Surely you're not talking about the long dead Unix vendor! Surely...right? Who's money are they wasting to pursue this dead end?
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- Hephaestus (profile), 9 Jul 2010 @ 6:20am
  
  Re: SCO?
  "Who's money are they wasting to pursue this dead end?"
  
  MicroSoft
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JR Smith (profile), 9 Jul 2010 @ 5:56am

SCO
Money? Mickeysoft?
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Jul 2010 @ 6:56am

THE APPEAL TO APPEAL THE APPEALS APPEAL APPEAL
ya USA justice is NON EXISTANT
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- Anonymous Coward, 9 Jul 2010 @ 8:03am
  
  Re: THE APPEAL TO APPEAL THE APPEALS APPEAL APPEAL
  Well, it's still being appealed. We'll see what the monopoly capital of the world has to say. Is free and open source possible or will this be another blow against free and open source software and anything that competes with lazy, non-innovative, government protected incumbent monopolists.
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Jul 2010 @ 7:39am

Another company who sued themselves out of existence. Anyone remember Lotus?
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Jul 2010 @ 7:55am

Uhm... isn't the mark of insanity trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
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- John Fenderson (profile), 9 Jul 2010 @ 9:30am
  
  Nope
  (Sorry, pet peeve of mine)
  
  Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results in not a mark of insanity. Just stupidity and perhaps a bit of obsessive/compulsiveness.
  
  SCO isn't insane, SCO is scamming. They know that in the end they are doomed, but they'll extract every dollar of investment money they can until that day.
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TtfnJohn (profile), 9 Jul 2010 @ 9:28am

There's an old English music hall song with a line that fit's perfectly.

" 'e's dead but 'e won't lay down!"
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aikiwolfie, 9 Jul 2010 @ 1:02pm

ROFLMAO
Oh man when will SCO just die and rot in the ground? Surely someone in the halls of justice in the USA must be getting tired of this as well? I mean do the judges get a special SCOver time rate or what?

How many times can SCO appeal? Why aren't the bankruptcy people killing SCO off? This is bizarre justice in the extreme.
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Jul 2010 @ 10:53pm

Groklaw
Groklaw doesn't have anything quite as current as this; but they may soon.
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