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SCO Asks the Bankruptcy Court to Let It Destroy Its Business Records ~ pj | 223 comments | Create New Account
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Why not? The court is legally obliged to grant your request.
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 01:31 AM EST
Make the request in the name of historic preservation, explaining that the SCO
corporate history is important historically. You can probably get some history
professors to back up this claim.

SCO didn't claim it needed to destroy the records for privacy reasons, it just
claimed that it cost money.

At the very least it would force SCO to claim it needs to destroy the records
for a *different* reason.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Is there *any* (legal.. :-) way at all..
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 03:53 AM EST
to get access to those docs?

Not wanting to be extradited for inducement to a CFAA
violation, but this kind of behavior *really* makes me feel
'itchy' to -for once- get into the not-so-noble-art of
cracking.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

why not?
Authored by: IANALitj on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 04:05 AM EST
Suppose, as I suggested elsewhere, someone shows up with a ten thousand dollar
offer to buy the non-confidential material. (I pledged up to a thousand of
that.) What would the reason be for refusing that offer of money to go into the
estate?

I presume that the Trustee would claim business judgment if he could, I can't
see how he can. It doesn't seem like sound business judgment to me to shred
these materials instead of selling them.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

"The court would never grant our request"
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 12:30 PM EST
Can you please explain the legal reasoning?

My layman reasoning is that the legal purpose of Chapter 7 is
to maximize the $$$ that the creditors will get. So by my
reasoning, anything that belong to the debtor, and somebody
is willing to pay for it, should go on the auction block.

What do I miss?

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

SCO Asks the Bankruptcy Court to Let It Destroy Its Business Records ~ pj
Authored by: rocky on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 04:17 PM EST
An organization like the EFF would have a more neutral stance to make the
request.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

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