[ale] SCO at it again

[Lightner, Jeff]

Not sure what you mean by "early supporters".  I made my living once
upon a time supporting hundreds of sites running SCO Unix so in that
sense I was an "early supporter".   SCO Unix was good product for its
niche and I rather enjoyed working on it.   It isn't even that
surprising they tried to go after Linux - In the PC realm they were king
when it came to *nix for a while and Linux while it has been ported to
many platforms and devices is primarily used in the same area that SCO
formerly competed in.   It is sad however, that they can't see that
they've lost and keep pretending that somehow they'll prevail some day.

 

The comments about being miserable in your work reminded me of my former
life in Hospitality Accounting.   I was making good money by the time I
became a Financial Controller and was living on site in a Caribbean
hotel on a beautiful beach (meaning my money was tax free) but after 11
years of hotels I was fairly burnt out and finally quit.   That 11 years
seemed like forever to me.   After I went into IT full time the first 11
years seemed to go by in a blur - enjoying your job really is important
to your state of mind.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Larry Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 7:47 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] SCO at it again

 

 

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com> wrote:

Hello David,


Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:54:28 PM, you wrote:

> I thought SCO was long gone dead and buried. Seems they are filing
> another lawsuit...

> http://3pfb.sl.pt



Not at it again, just still at it.  This is merely an expected appeal to
the verdicts.  Even if they somehow succeed in getting one or more
rulings remanded back to the trial court then what the upshot of it is
will be more expense for SCO that they cannot afford.

It is only an attempt at delaying the inevitable death of SCO.

Cheers,
R~





About once a week I catch up with  the "progress" of the SCO suits,
mostly out of habit, since the case was really settled long ago.  I
haven't figured out exactly why they continue to the case, although
there are several reasonable explanations. 

One is that they've been doing it so long that they have no other
expectation from life.  I can relate to that on a personal level.  At
one point I was running a business, and was personally miserable.
Unlike SCO I was actually making money, but not enough to justify the
mind-numbing misery of spending 80 or ninety hours a week on that
enterprise.  I just thought that it was inevitable that I keep the
wretched thing moving along.  SCO's executives have been doing this for
so long that may be a factor.

Another is that "hope springs eternal".  They may just think it's worth
doing because there's still a billion dollar jackpot in the end, and
some court or jury will change the momentum.


The third is that they are afraid that when the case ends some litigious
stockholder will manage to pierce the corporate veil and hold them
personally responsible for the losses.  This isn't a far fetched
scenario given that the early supporters of Caldera/SCO were
enthusiastic supporters of litigation.

Whatever the reason, the SCO case exceeded my ability to hold the
details in my head about three years ago.  At this point I assume it's
going back to the Tenth Circuit, but that's another detail I've lost the
ability to retain.

Larry 
-- 
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design (only how to write it down), employee evaluation standards that
don't help you build meaningful long-term relationships with staff,
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running."

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