Can I just say...
.. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has temporarily halted trading in SCO shares. The software company, which filed for bankruptcy in September 2007, has been hampered by legal costs and falling sales, after a US judge ruled that Novell, not SCO, was the owner of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights. SCO was further …
They have loads of money and can afford to spend some in the minor hope that Linux suffers at least something. After all, FUD seems to be a good marketing campaign.
But then again, the SCO thing has been having death throes for so long maybe it doesn't even generate FUD anymore. The only uncertainty is when the rigamortis will set in.
As a linux user, I am enjoying this opportunity to bathe metaphorically in the pool of their sweet, sweet tears.
Sad really, I remember when the Santa Cruz Operation were a legitimate company that actually did useful stuff with UNIX and computers, rather than merely a bunch of laughable patent trolls. It's a shame that the 'SCO Group' who bought the trademark have managed to irreparably tarnish the name.
HTF are these shares still traded.
whose buying them. Is it a group trying to ramp them up so they can dump them again?
"Hampered by falling sales"
Of what?
This microsoft funded open source killing FUD machine should finally be put down.
Anyone with a spare $1k fancy trying to help short them into oblivion?
I would have tried to buy out the company long ago and turn whatever IP it might or might not have over to a legal defense fund for Open Source software. As long as it or any of its assets are still kicking around somewhere it's still a zombie waiting to attack again.
Is this a reminder of how forked software patents are? Really, the number of "businesses" in the US that trade on nothing that they themselves have produced should be a sign. Please please please do not adopt this patent crap anywhere else. Leave it in "the land of the free" where it effing well belongs - that is " the land of the free to patent shit and sue someone else for sniffing it"
No, do not RIP, RI no P .....and good riddance SCO.