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[News] Linux Wannabe (SCO) to be Delisted, Another Wannabe (OpenSolaris) Appears

  • Subject: [News] Linux Wannabe (SCO) to be Delisted, Another Wannabe (OpenSolaris) Appears
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:58:26 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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With bankruptcy, SCO now facing Nasdaq delisting

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| Following its bankruptcy filing, The SCO Group may be booted off of the 
| Nasdaq stock exchange as early as next week, the Unix vendor said Wednesday. 
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=104232991&rid=-50

New Project Indiana Details Emerge

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| With Sun's past work with the GNOME project, GNOME will be the desktop 
| environment in Project Indiana said Ian Murdock. He had gone on to reiterate 
| several other basic points such as the single CD installation with 
| network-based package management (likely powered by apt). Project Indiana 
| will also be easier to acquire, as it will be available through mirrors that 
| do not need registration and will be distributed via Bit Torrent.     
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=849&num=1


Related:

SCO says there is 'substantial doubt' it will survive

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| The rulings may also cost SCO a lot of money. The court said that SCO would 
| have to pay Novell for past licensing deals it had struck with Sun 
| Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft. This could amount more than $30 million, SCO 
| said in its SEC filing. That's more than the $10.4 million in cash now held 
| by SCO.    
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070918/tc_infoworld/91897


SCO Asks Court to Let it Hire Accounting Temps - Half of its finance dept.
fired or quit

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| SCO had seven people in the finance department, but after SCO filed for 
| bankruptcy, "approximately half of the accounting personnel resigned or were 
| terminated, including the resignation of two accounting personnel, each with 
| over ten years' experience..."   
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070917072753835


SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing

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| SCO Group CEO Darl McBride says competition from the open source Linux 
| operating system was a major reason why the company was forced to file for 
| Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday.  
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070918/tc_cmp/201806893


Can Microsoft get its $12 million back from SCO?

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| Microsoft played matchmaker back in 2003 when SCO needed money to help fund 
| its lawsuits agains IBM and various other Linux players and customers. 
| Microsoft suggested that hedge fund BayStar Capital invest $50 million in 
| SCO.   
| 
| Microsoft also backed SCO’s play to convince other vendors and customers to 
| license SCO’s technology to avoid potential infringement lawsuits. (Maybe 
| that’s where Microsoft got its patent-licensing ideas ...)  
| 
| One of the first companies to snap up two SCO licenses was Microsoft, to the 
| tune of $12 million, according to BusinessWeek. Sun Microsystems and Computer 
| Associates also bought into SCO’s plan.  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=639


The Goldfarb Declaration - Updated: MS Statement

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| According to the Declaration, Richard Emerson was not the only
| Microsoft employee Goldfarb was dealing with in connection with the
| BayStar investment in SCO. He mentions by name two others, from two
| other departments.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061009152706664


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| "There you have it. At least a third of SCO's entire market
| capitalization, and their entire current cash reserves, is payoffs
| funnelled from Microsoft. Their 10Qs reveal that every other line of
| cash inflow is statistical noise by comparison. The brave new
| SCO source business model is now clear: sue your customers, shill
| for Microsoft, kite your stock, and pray you stay out of jail."
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween10.html

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