SCO going Chapter 11

[Matt Shields]

I can't remember what they were called but it was mid-1990's

On 9/15/07, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:11:03 -0400
> "Matt Shields" <mattboston-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > I hope the judge denies their bankruptcy protection and lets their
> > creditors go after them.  I hope they die a slow and painful death for
> > all the harm they've cause other companies.
> >
> > And to think at one time in my life I actually recommended their products.
>
>
> Did you recommend:
> 1. SCO Classic - eg. Santa Cruz
> 2. The SCO Group - Current
> 3. Caldera before they bought the Unix division of Santa Cruz.
>
> Here is the Groklaw coverage
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070914152904577
>
> I seriously doubt any judge is going to deny Ch 11 protection.
>
> However I can't believe that Darl McBride & Co., Boies Schiller, and
> the other attorneys actually believed that The SCO group owned the
> copyrights when it was reasonably clear that Novell did not transfer
> the copyrights to The Santa Cruz Operation. It could be that Santa Cruz
> (later Tarantella, now part of Sun) may have misled the Caldera
> management when Caldera purchased the Unix group from SCO Classic. This
> could lead to another lawsuit against Sun (who owns Tarantella).
>
> Both the IBM and the Novell lawsuits focus on events that occurred prior
> to the purchase. Part of the original case against Novell was with
> SuSE's United Linux contract, and Novell pushed that into arbitration.
> That was a contract that was signed by Caldera before they bought SCO.
>
> In any case, the remaining portion of the SCO vs. Novell is whether SCO
> owes Novell royalties on the SVRX and if so, how much (Re: SCO's
> Microsoft and Sun contracts).
>
> In any case, the SCO vs. Novell and SCO vs. IBM cases are very
> important to both the Linux community as well as the entire Open Source
> community. In the case of Linux, SCO claimed the rights to license and
> receive royalties on Linux, but they also challenged the GPL. I think
> their GPL challenge has been largely pushed out, but could come back in
> the IBM case  if it ever sees the light of day.
>
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