sissyphean?
Was that a deliberate typo?
Battered unix patent warrior SCO has been booted from the Nasdaq after it lost an appeal against delisiting by the New York technology market. SCO told the SEC on Thursday about its latest defeat in regulatory filing. Nasdaq first showed SCO the door when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September. The firm …
That venerable institution Dictionary.com indicates that the correct spelling is sisyphean.
Unless you're coining a new word: sissy + sisyphean, although I wouldn't think anyone bold enough (or stupid enough) to take over where SCO left off would be considered sissies by any stretch of the imagination.
I suppose I should get my coat for being so boring as to correct your spelling.
It will probably be available pretty cheap (more than before) real soon. If it gets down to $.01 it might be worthwhile for everyone to buy a single share so we can tank this thing (put into the skip!). If they issue stock certificates, a wall of SCO wallpaper comes to mind.
Can't say they haven't brought all of this on themselves.
(They could be bought out by Microsoft, but that is another comment...)
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"Battered unix patent warrior SCO"
They hold no patents for any Unix code, IIRC. I think they have only one patent for something unrelated, and they're trying to move the ownership of this sideways into a newly formed company so as to not see it flogged off when the bankruptcy court has enough of their shenanigans.
The whole IBM/Novell/world thing they've been bleating on about for years is about alleged copyright of code, not patents.