Kimball Denies SCO's Motion for Reconsideration/Clarification
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| When it rains, it pours, they say. First, SCO files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
| protection, and now on the same day Judge Dale Kimball has denied SCO's
| Motion for Reconsideration or Clarification of the August 10, 2007 Order.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070914204749110
Stick a fork in SCO. They're done.
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| If, and that one heck of an if, SCO abandons its losing Linux litigation
| efforts and its enemies allow it to survive, then and only then will SCO ever
| emerge alive out of bankruptcy. What I really expect to happen is for SCO to
| go out of business sometime in the next year.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8426942136.html
Many SCO customers might possibly just migrate to Linux now. More market share
for Free software.
Related:
SCO Tried to Gag Groklaw in 2004
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| So SCO tried to gag Groklaw beginning in 2004. It moved on to
| false insinuations to journalists, ugly innuendo during a conference
| about me and Groklaw, having friendly journalists with PIs try to
| dig up dirt on me, a massive astroturfing campaign all over the
| internet, and then finally to intimidation with their recent motion.
| Well, I'm gagging, all right, but not in a good way, and certainly
| not in the way SCO hoped.
|
| I will respond like this, seriously for a moment. This is America.
| I am an American citizen. I was born here, born to certain rights
| as my birthright. I'm allowed to cover this litigation without
| being harassed and intimidated or threatened or gagged. I'm
| allowed to present facts that disprove SCO's public allegations.
| I am allowed to write what I believe is the truth, and I'm
| to present research about the allegations.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007042819571717
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 ...)
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| 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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