SCO has second thoughts about Groklaw alternative
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NOVEMBER 02, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - The SCO Group Inc. is reconsidering its plans to launch an alternative to the Groklaw.net Web site that had been scheduled to go live this week, a company spokeswoman said yesterday.
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Almost fully functional Cluster Watch: Day 6 It may have been CEO Darl McBride or attorney David Boies, but someone has stepped up to fix the SCO Group's web site.â¦
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IBM is trying to use SCO as a punching bag this week as Big Blue fires off another motion for partial summary judgment in its legal slugfest over Linux and Unix copyright issues.
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SCO's fight against Linux has conspiracy theorists buzzing over Microsoft's role in the affair. What are the facts?
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Which PJ is the real PJ? The sequel to the 2005 Linux mystery thriller concerning the identity of the Groklaw blogger going by the name Pamela Jones has hit the street, and despite some fresh intrigue, it's as rough a slog as the original.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Following its bankruptcy filing, The SCO Group may be booted off of the Nasdaq stock exchange as early as next week, the Unix vendor said Wednesday. The stock exchange informed SCO on Tuesday that "the Company's securities will be delisted from Nasdaq on September 27, 2007, pending an appeal," SCO said in a statement . This comes as a result ofÂ SCO's recent filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection,Â the companyÂ said. SCO has asked for a hearing to appeal the decision, so it may be able to stave off delisting if it can present the Nasdaq's Listing Qualifications Panel -- a group of independent industry experts -- with a viable business plan, said Wayne Lee, a Nasdaq spokesman. The delisting notice is the latest in a series of bad news for the company, stemming from its August 10 legal defeat to Novell. In a series of rulings,Â a federal judge found that Novell and not SCO owned copyright to the Unix operating system. In addition to putting SCO in a position where it may have to pay millions of dollars in compensation to Novell, the ruling also underminedÂ SCO's legal battle with IBM, which relates to IBM's support of the Linux operating system. "As a result of both the Court's August 10, 2007, ruling and the Company's entry into Chapter 11, there is substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a growing concern," SCO said in its most recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. SCO's stock (SCOX) has been pounded since August 10, when it opened at $1.49. On Wednesday it closed at $0.20.
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No, the SCO Group is the copyright violator, according to Big Blue's latest filing.
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(InfoWorld) - With its cash reserves running out and its legal case against IBM unravelling, The SCO Group now says there is doubt that it will remain afloat. SCO made the statement in its most recent quarterly U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission statement, filed Tuesday. The company citedÂ its recent motion for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protectionÂ as well as a recent court setback relating to its intellectual-property claims as reasons for worry. "As a result of both the Court's August 10, 2007 ruling and the Company's entry into Chapter 11, there is substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a growing concern," SCO said in the filing. Last month a judge with the U.S. District Court for the District of UtahÂ ruled against SCO on several motions, finding that Novell, rather than SCO, owned the Unix copyright. Novell had sold SCO some Unix rights in the mid-1990s, but the court said that copyright was never assigned. "The effect of these rulings was to significantly reduce or to eliminate certain of the Company's claims in both the Novell and IBM cases, and possibly others," SCO said in its SEC filing. Several of the company's claims against IBM will be dismissed as a result of this ruling, SCO said in the filing, adding that there are still certain claims that remain viable, such as SCO's allegation that IBM engaged in unfair competition in its failed "Project Monterey" effort that was to create a Unix for 64-bit microprocessors. The rulings may also cost SCO a lot of money. The court said that SCO would have to pay Novell for past licensing deals it had struck with Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft. This could amount more than $30 million, SCO said in its SEC filing. That's more than the $10.4 million in cash now held by SCO. The rest of the 10-Q statement, which covers the quarter ended July 31, is a litany of bad news. SCO's total revenue has dropped drastically year-over-year, its Unix business is down 37 percent, it made nothing from its SCOsource Linux licensing program, short-sellers may further drive the stock down, and the bankruptcy proceedings will divert a "significant amount" of senior management's time away from business operations, the filing said. SCO did not immediately return calls seeking comment. The company's detractors were not so quiet. The filings show that by declaring bankruptcy, SCO is hoping to stave off paying Novell the money it owes, said Pamela Jones, editor of the Groklaw.net blog, which has closely followed SCO's litigation. "They are, to my eyes, saying they don't want to hand over the Sun and Microsoft 2003 monies because it would put them out of business," she said.
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The entertainment industry asks the Supreme Court to reverse the Grokster decision, which held that peer-to-peer networks are not liable for copyright abuses of their users. By Michael Grebb.
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SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. is seeking dismissal of a second major component of the lawsuit filed against it last year by Unix vendor The SCO Group Inc., according to court documents filed Friday by IBM. The documents, filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, argue that SCO's breach of contract allegations should be dismissed from the lawsuit.
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In its quarterly 10-Q filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, UNIX provider SCO Group expressed its fears that, if it were faced with a judgment ordering it to pay Novell for several years of using UNIX trademarks recently found to have been owned by Novell all this time, it may not be able to continue business.
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We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.  Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms for feeds that you might like, based on what you and others like, there would only be a future for SYO if it were a thriving and growing community, and it isn't.  Normally, I'd leave a site like that running indefinitely, but this one needed its own server, and I wanted to cut my server expenses now that my S3 bill is going up, serving some very big JPEGs and generally being the back-end for a community that is growing, the people using FlickrFan. If there's a big demand to bring it back, we can -- but that's going to require cash flow to go with it. At this point, I don't think it's a good investment for me. Still diggin!
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The Nasdaq stock exchange has threatened to delist SCO next Thursday, due to its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
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The SCO Group Inc. is setting up a Web site to cover the latest happenings in its many legal disputes and as an alternative to the Groklaw.net, a popular Web site that has been highly critical of the company.
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IBM attorneys argued that Utah-based SCO Group has failed to provide any evidence that IBM allowed proprietary Unix code to enter the freely distributed Linux operating system and its &#36;5 billion suit making that claim should be dismissed.
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InfoWorld - Following its bankruptcy filing, The SCO Group may be booted off of the Nasdaq stock exchange as early as next week, the Unix vendor said Wednesday.
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Richard Mathias writes &quot;Following on from the posting a month ago, where SCO said it was going to launch a new website to counteract Groklaw and give its side of things - well, now the company looks like it&#39;s given up on the whole plan.