Posted on 07/08/2010 5:24:00 PM PDT by ShadowAce
SCO has filed its notice of appeal:
As you can see, they hope the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will bail them out again:07/07/2010 - 881 - NOTICE OF APPEAL as to 876 Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law, 878 Judgment, 877 Order on Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law, Order on Motion for New Trial, Memorandum Decision filed by SCO Group. Appeals to the USCA for the 10th Circuit. Filing fee $ 455, receipt number 1088-1150192. (Hatch, Brent) (Entered: 07/07/2010)
Plaintiff, The SCO Group, Inc., hereby appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from the Jury Verdict entered in this action on March 30, 2010, the district court’s evidentiary rulings at trial, Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law dated June 10, 2010, Memorandum Decision and Order Denying SCO’s Renewed Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law or, in the alternative, for a New Trial dated June 10, 2010, and the Final Judgment entered on June 10, 2010.They're appealing everything, in short, or they'd like a new trial. Because three trials isn't enough when you're not having fun. Speaking of which, I confess. I'm so sick of SCO I could spit.
SCO: Another Reason to Hate UNIX.
Where’d Darl get $455? Hold up a 7-11?
LOL!
On some level, I had to admire the persistence.
Darl McBride is an example of quite a few CEO’s, they bankrupt the company they lead for their personal gain including inflating their egos. He as the CEO didn’t add value to the company, he took it away !
If the SCO Group didn’t waste time on useless lawsuits against Linux, what kind of products/services could they have offered to the computer community ? Before this moron became CEO, I remember getting Word Perfect for Linux in addition to WABI (Product from Sun that allowed you to run Windows 3.1 and 3.11). What other products could they have offered ? They also offered their own versions of Linux such as Caldera as well.
Concerning SCO, when they were based in Santa Cruz, CA, hence their name, they were a very good company and it was a shame the company was decimated !
And yes, Microsoft fanboys and other anti-Linux folks, that's a direct slam against Ballmer and the other a$$holes who funded this misbegotten adventure starting 8+ years ago through middlemen like Baystar (which finally began to see the truth and bailed).
This never-ending parade of bogus lawsuits is corrupt crap and deserves nothing but derisive scorn from any true conservative.
It's frickin' unbelievable.
Screen cap from when someone hacked their site.
The SCO Group (newSCO) was Caldera, a failing Linux company.
The Santa Cruz Operation (oldSCO) was a respected, successful original vendor of UNIX on x86. They bought the UNIX business (not UNIX, but the UNIX business) from Novell, hoping to take advantage of the sales channels.
That didn’t work so well, so they sold the UNIX division to Caldera. Darl McBride comes on board and changes the name to The SCO Group, IMNSHO, in a effort to gain false credibility and respect (for example, SCO claims to be in business since the 1979 founding of oldSCO, while Caldera started in 1994). Caldera/newSCO then promptly sues several companies involved in the pre-purchase UNIX contracts, such as Novell, IBM, Daimler Chrysler and AutoZone. To date only the DC case has been closed conclusively, with DC crushing newSCO.
IIRC, the only time Caldera/newSCO ever made profits were when they settled an inherited lawsuit with Microsoft (came with DR DOS bought from Novell), and when Microsoft and Sun paid them millions to keep the Linux lawsuits going (ostensibly they were UNIX licenses).
At one time in my life I installed and maintained SCO OpenSever and SCO Unixware.
SCO OpenServer was not bad. Unixware 7 worked well and looked like a winner.
Then this lawsuit crap started.
It is a software company and you have no dog in the fight....chill.
For many years, I had to write and maintain code and (bourne and korn) shell scripts that ran on AIX, SCO UNIX (& XENIX), NCRUNIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Slackware Linux. SCO UNIX was, by far, the biggest pain in the rear end to maintain. The korn shell scripts would run perfectly on AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX; pretty well on NCRUNIX and Slackware; and routinely break for no apparent reason on SCO UNIX (but not as much on XENIX.)
The primary software application was written in ‘C’ and was launched under the bourne shell (contrary to the original design). To execute various application functions, it then called korn shell scripts. For some reason, SCO UNIX had problems executing korn shell scripts called from bourne. (They didn’t always break in the same place, so it was difficult to troubleshoot.) If the application was launched under korn as recommended, the same scripts didn’t break.
I hate SCO UNIX. Always have; always will. (XENIX was okay.)
Which? Microsoft? Yes. SCO? They haven't been a serious software company for most of a decade. They're nothing but a stalking horse and litigation machine for other companies who wanted to see Linux dead, primarily Microsoft.
> and you have no dog in the fight....chill.
On the contrary, I've felt the fallout from this misbegotten mess since 2003, when a company I worked for started making major project decisions based on whether Linux was viable or not, and things got very ugly SOLELY on the basis of these unfounded idiotic claims by SCO. Friends lost their jobs because of the fear, uncertainty, and doubt (the original FUD) generated by SCO's groundless lawsuits.
As Groklaw unraveled the mess and showed the shadowy hands behind SCO, our initial suspicions were largely vindicated.
I bear a sizable resentment toward SCO, and whomever funded them, for good reason. I'll "chill" when Darl and his evil band are truly dead.
Note that this resentment doesn't stop me from using and enjoying Microsoft's products, using them every day, and recommending them to others when appropriate. That's business. The resentment is because of their bogus anti-Linux non-business activities.
I was more on the hardware side. I was impressed at the stability of SCO Unix. I won’t claim SCO OpenServer was a great product, as it had it’s eccentricities when it came to configuring it. However, OpenServer, once configured, tended to stay up and just run.
When Unixware 7 came out, I liked installing and configuring it. Far easier than OpenServer. Unfortunately, I didn’t get the chance to really dig into Unixware 7.
I went so far into OpenServer, I found an IRC chat client and used it, just to see if I could get it to run. I also found the Front Page server extensions for OpenServer and the native Apache web server. I installed the extensions and got them to work.
Yeah, total geek on that stuff. It was great fun.
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