Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 06:40 PM EDT |
Given the volume of filings SCOg used to enjoy - how long would it take a
newly assigned Judge to get up to proper speed on the case?
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Authored by: squib on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 06:46 PM EDT |
Point...?
I think that a lot of people would like to think: that after their tether to
this Earth are severed and they go to that big heaven-wide-web in the sky, that
somehow their efforts and endeavours whilst in the land of the living made this
world a little bit better. I wonder what goes through the mind of Bride et.al?
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Authored by: Steve Martin on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 06:57 PM EDT |
I am amused to see SCO twisting
slowly in the wind,
approaching
the inevitable Chapter 7,
Um... they're in
Chapter 7
now.
--- "When I say something, I put my name next to it." --
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Authored by: sk43 on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 08:56 PM EDT |
"On the other hand, SCO really does have a point. A year and a half to even
get a motion heard on whether they can reopen the case? That seems unreasonably
slow, even by the pace of District Court actions. (Which makes it seem like the
District Court is in fact deliberately stalling ..."
Let us not forget (as the District Court most certainly has not) that SCO had
the rapt attention of the Utah Court for four and half years. At that point,
having already consumed vast resources of the Court, and with something like 26
motions still pending, SCO declared bankruptcy - ordered the case
administratively closed. Three years later SCO asked for, and was granted, a
hearing on a motion to reopen [1089] which was granted, but then SCO couldn't
even figure out why it filed the motion in the first place. Now, yet another
two and a half years later, SCO is asking for attention once again.
Is the District Court "stalling"? Surely not ... or is it giving SCO
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 10:13 AM EDT |
AFAIK, SCO restructured its relationship with its lawyers back
before (or just after) the bankruptcy, such that they
effectively pre-paid for representation through this case and
any potential appeals. So the lawyers are already paid for.
Basically, they don't need any more money, and the lawyers
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- No... but yes - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 11:45 AM EDT
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Authored by: tknarr on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 02:20 PM EDT |
Well, SCO were the ones who put the whole thing on hold in the first place.
The ruling in the Novell case was about to come down, and once that happened the
IBM case would've proceeded. It was SCO that, literally on the eve of the Novell
ruling, dove into bankruptcy and forced the automatic stay of those cases. It
was SCO who argued that those cases should not be allowed to proceed and that
the rulings already handed down in the Novell case shouldn't be enforced. And it
was SCO who argued, when IBM wanted the entire case reopened, that it shouldn't
be reopened and allowed to proceed in full. Given that, if SCO's bothered by the
cases being on hold I can't have much sympathy for them seeing as it's them
responsible for the situation.
And although I haven't read the documents
yet, I'd guess that SCO still doesn't want the IBM case reopened in full.
They want their side of it to be reopened but want IBM's side left on
hold so that IBM's defense is hamstrung. If SCO was really interested in having
the case ruled on they'd ask for it to be reopened fully. But they haven't and
they aren't, because they know if they allow IBM to counter them they're going
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 04:23 PM EDT |
What do they hope to gain?
vs
What do they actually loose by
closing up the bankruptcy doors and leaving the case against IBM
administratively closed?
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