Ding-dong! The witch is alive.Posted on 03/31/2016 7:34:40 AM PDT by ShadowAce
On Feburary 29, we told you that SCO was “undeniably and reliably dead” after the company signed off on Judge David Nuffer’s dismissal of what remained of its case against IBM. Guess what? We were wrong. The once upon a time Linux and Unix company, which developed and distributed the Caldera GNU/Linux distribution, evidently has not yet been pulled from life support. On Tuesday, the company filed notification that it intends to appeal Judge Nuffer’s ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Ding-dong! The witch is alive.
The bases of SCO’s appeal is not yet known. The papers filed only give notice that the plaintiff, that would be SCO, intends to appeal the decision. What is known is that the bankrupt company with no assets, other than its claim against IBM, is somehow managing to keep lawyers paid, which indicates that somebody’s lurking in the shadows hoping to eventually win the SCO lottery.
We can also assume that SCO’s lawyers aren’t working cheaply. According to the court document filed Tuesday, the company continues to be represented by the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner. David Boies is the same lawyer who prevailed over Redmond in the Netscape/Microsoft monopoly case and was almost responsible for having Microsoft split into two companies.
To hazard a guess, IBM’s response will likely be to revive its countersuits against SCO, and might even add a couple of new ones into the mix. It wouldn’t be a surprise if IBM pursued these counter claims aggressively, in an effort to help whomever is behind keeping SCO alive incur considerable legal expenses.
In the meantime, grab the popcorn and the M&Ms. This is turning out to be the longest death scene ever.
At least I could still read the synopses of the articles. Or go and actually read the linked articles. Oh wait, that’s against the FR guidelines isn’t it. Must NEVER read the article. Or is that just before posting? I can never get it right.
According to the court document filed Tuesday, the company continues to be represented by the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.
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My guess is they own SCO or have a huge claim on any future award.
He is still in my killfile.
FRTrollblocker is a great script.
That was it. Never did figure out why the 8088’s were worse/came out before the 8086’s.
I’ve searched for it and can’t find it. I’d really like to have it as it worked nicely. Do you have it or can you point me to some place online I can DL it again? There are really a few posters that I’d like to just never see - ever!
IBM. 8088 was an 8 bit bus. The 86 had the full 16 bit bus for the architecture, which was best for a multi user system.
The 8087 was an optional math co-processor.
The 88 was cheaper and designed for a single user system. IBM was taking a chance on the PC. Their main focus was big iron.
It ended up exceeding their expectations, of course. They screwed the pooch with the PS/2 and micro channel. Not that micro channel was bad, it just wasn’t backward compatible with the iSA bus. Expansion cards were expensive back then. Small businesses couldn’t just scrap their investments like large corporations could.
Compaq won the day with EISA.
Back in the day we used to take hex editors to command.com and replaced “International Business Machines” with “Ignorant Business Men” in the boot up copyright screen.
}:-)
Perhaps their lawyers see some remote money at the end of the rainbow?
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