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SCO Files Final Chapter 11 Report in Bankruptcy, Files August MORs; Now It's Onward and Downward in Chapter 7 ~pj | 214 comments | Create New Account
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corrections here
Authored by: Tufty on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 02:00 AM EDT
Hint the title

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Off topic
Authored by: Tufty on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 02:01 AM EDT
Or even off tropic

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SCO Files Final Chapter 11 Report in Bankruptcy, Files August MORs; Now It's Onward and Downward in Chapter 7 ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 02:01 AM EDT
"The August monthly report lists a total of $7,187.786 in
professional fees paid since the bankruptcy began, plus
$492,981 in expenses"

A sad day for US bankruptcy law!

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News Picks
Authored by: Tufty on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 02:02 AM EDT
Read all about... the latest and greatest ... well maybe!

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Linux powered squirrel.

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comes documents
Authored by: Tufty on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 02:02 AM EDT
mine the pits

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Seung Ni Capital Partners
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 03:27 AM EDT
> (Collateral Agent, ThinkAtomic) $2,248,218.11 (Secured)

Secured? With a concrete shoe at the bottom of the Delaware R?

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Blank Rome owed half a million for what, exactly?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 03:28 AM EDT
Paying themselves a butchery fee for carving up the corpse?

Quis audits ipsos auditores?

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To paraphrase Gotye..
Authored by: Albatross93 on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 03:56 AM EDT
Now you're just some bankrupt who used to be SCO.

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I predict: They are Doomed, Doomed!
Authored by: Ian Al on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 04:17 AM EDT
Who said, 'Not again!'.

I have been predicting this for over ten years and none of you would listen to
me.

I don't get it. They always manage to get free in a single bound. It's going to
happen, somehow. Do you really imagine that the lawyers will end up with unpaid
bills?

Doomed-ish, then. Stick a fork in them: they're done. Take them out back and
shoot them.

See you all here, in ten year's time, then.

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Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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Are there any UnXis customers on Groklaw?
Authored by: TAZ6416 on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 05:18 AM EDT
Just curious, what kind of support are you getting for your old SCO systems?
Are they pushing VM's now more than physical machines and is there any
development work going on that you know of or are they just treading water with
the old systems.

And of course if you want to leave them and migrate to Linux do they help or get
stroppy? ;)

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SCO Chapter 7 - wow that was a long time coming :-)
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 06:50 AM EDT
The END.

Silverwave not logged in.

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Escrow account for Novell money
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 06:56 AM EDT
Wasn't there meant to be some sort of escrow account set up to protect Novell's
royalty money that had been collected on their behalf?

Did Novell get any of this?

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Has Cahn been knowingly trading while insolvent?
Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 08:13 AM EDT
These figures seem to say that is exactly what he has been doing. I don't know
about US law, but it would be a criminal offence in the UK.

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Is Boies Schiller still on the hook? n/t
Authored by: jsoulejr on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 09:35 AM EDT
n/t

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SCO Files Final Chapter 11 Report in Bankruptcy, Files August MORs; Now It's Onward and Downward in Chapter 7 ~pj
Authored by: GriffMG on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 10:49 AM EDT
Funny, Blank Rome can't even get the spelling right in their notice!

Acount -> Account



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What about that pizza guy
Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 11:20 AM EDT
I seem to recall some mention of owing for pizza. Did the pizza guy get stiffed
too?

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What a Cahn job !
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 12:07 PM EDT
What it was not worth draining the last drop of fees from the dead body of SCO ?

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In many ways this is a sad story
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 01:39 PM EDT

Laid off employees, a ruined product line, unpaid creditors...

All because management decided to gamble on being able to blackmail
IBM into buying them off. At least that's what it appears to have happened
as far as I can tell. If anyone (SCO insiders) is willing to provide us
documentable proof, well, we'd be really interested in seeing it.

After all, an NDA with a dead company is probably no longer enforceable.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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The Moral Crime of SCO's Bankruptcy
Authored by: russellphoto on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 02:07 PM EDT
And the really sad thing is the moral crime (no legal crime here at all) of this
bankruptcy. It's one thing to actually have a case and see it through. It's
another to have a hope of a case (SCO) and when the going get's tough lock up
your cash so NO ONE can get it. Then have a trustee appointed who is willing to
squander the remainder in the false hope of somehow bringing home the bacon.

The moral outrage at this long, drawn out march to finality is huge. These are
the cases that make you wonder at the state of Delaware and how their
legislators can sleep at night allowing these kind of bankruptcy laws to
continue.

(stepping off the soapbox -- your turn)

Russell

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Will they finally open the kimono?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 02:53 PM EDT
All I really want to know is, will we FINALLY get to see the paper trails
leading through SCO to Microsoft? I remember PJ speculating about the
possibility back when the bankruptcy kicked off in the first place.

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  • No - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 05:30 PM EDT
Which staff have stayed this long?
Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 02:56 PM EDT
This makes me wonder, which staff have stayed this long? Which came and which
left? Why, in both cases. The uncertainty, the bad press, the promises from
senior staff must have made SCO a very tough aquarium to live in. Has this
generated an increase in staff turnover or has the turnover remained the same
since the years before Darl McBride's entry. It must be a bizarre situation to
be in, for this long.




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$83K cash on hand?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 03:24 PM EDT
So, who's going to fund the expenses of the case against IBM? Blank Rome?
Cahn? Yarro?

Or is BSF not only going to be working for free, but eating the expenses as
well?

Or are they going to try to win the IBM case without having to spend any money
on expenses?

The disconnect with reality just keeps getting larger and larger...

MSS2

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... fear of having to pay Novell ....??
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 03:36 PM EDT
Don't you mean "... adamant refusal to pay Novell ..."?
I mean, they started this whole thing because they wanted to kill Linux, which
allegedly infringed UNIX, which they claimed they owned, instead of it (UNIX)
being (at least partially) owned by Novell; but in any case, t$COg didn't own
any of it.

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Alia Shahbaz's back pay
Authored by: Yossarian on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 06:08 PM EDT
>is owed back pay and severance and wanted the
>bankruptcy court to help her

I wonder if the good, religious, people who decided not
to pay Ms. Shahbaz have ever read Deuteronomy 24,14:
"Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and
needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a
foreigner residing in one of your towns. Pay them their wages
each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting
on it."

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  • Jeremiah 22:13 - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 08:01 PM EDT
"Remember when Ralph Yarro got all the SCO stock from Canopy"
Authored by: Yossarian on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 06:12 PM EDT
When that happened I claimed that Canopy realized what a risk,
to stock holders SCO has become. Canopy did what a rational
person does when he finds himself stuck in a hole -
"Stop Digging".

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That is what bankruptcy is for
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 06:22 PM EDT
Solvent companies enter bankruptcy to escape legal action, and lawyers and
judges then assist them to become insolvent.

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Gloria Estefan said it best
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 04:42 PM EDT
And when you go, I won’t miss you at all
And when you go, I’ll be having a ball
you will see Thoughts of you, won’t ever cross my mind
It’s the truth, don’t mean to be unkind

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