[ShadowAce]

[martin_fierro]

Seen here as a petering-out branch of REDHAT --> CALDERA --> SCO

[Paladin2]

Where’s Darl’s brother Darl going to get the next paycheck?

[Still Thinking]

Isn’t that putz Darl on the streets yet?? Jeez, this lawsuit plan is working better than I expected it would. It’s kept Darl in a job for like three more years than he deserved.

[dayglored]

Since 2003, SCO's hidden investors (notably Microsoft, but probably others as well) have been paying SCO's executives behind the scenes, using a metric I would call the "lawsuit-year". $X-dollars per lawsuit per year it's active.

In other words, keep the lawsuits going, as many as possible, for as many years as possible. This has always, from its inception, been a tactic to scare business people away from using Linux. Nothing else. The only value has been FUD -- and in 2003-04 it was actually working.

The hidden payments will stop when the lawsuits stop. So the lawsuits MUST continue, regardless of the collateral damage (such as losing SCO's actual product line).

This last move, to gut the SCO product line to continue the lawsuits, demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that the only purpose of SCO was to be Microsoft's stalking horse against Linux.

What a travesty...

[TChris]

I continue to be completely baffled by these lawsuits.

I have tried and tried to discover a plausible reason for Darl & Co. to flush such huge piles of money down the legal toilet with less chance of seeing any success than the holder of half a 20-year-old lottery ticket, but I must admit that I'm stumped.

It's just. Plain. Nuts.

[steve-b]

As the clock ever so slowly winds down, SCO is now dumping what was once its heart, its Unix OpenServer and UnixWare business, and its newer mobile software, to continue its forlorn lawsuits.

A judge needs to pound his gavel firmly on their fingers to keep those assets right where they are, so that they can be properly liquidated to pay off the various countersuits against SCO.