Wednesday, October 31, 2007
11/1 SNR
So the SCO universe is in a brief holding pattern until November 6th, when all hell is scheduled to break loose. That's when the BK court plans to hear arguments on a stack of motions from both SCO and Novell. The two biggies are SCO's petition to hold the proposed emergency fire sale auction, and Novell's to unstay the SCO v. Novell case and let Kimball sort out the conversion issue. If the BK courts worked like general-purpose courts, I'd expect all the motions to be taken under advisement, with an eventual ruling denying all the motions that might dispose of the matter one way or the other. But as PJ notes here, BK court moves fast. Maybe that's overgeneralizing; some BK cases drag on for years and years with no end in sight, but right now the SCO BK matter appears to be moving much faster than the Novell & IBM cases ever did. It's still possible nobody will come away with a win on the 6th, but it may turn out to be a very critical moment in the SCO saga. If either side gets a win, they win big, and the possible outcomes appear to be mutually exclusive, so the judge can't simply approve all the motions on the table. Either SCO weasels out of the last few years of litigation, or Novell takes a key step toward putting SCO out of business for good, or possibly neither, but definitely not both.
Oh, and there's that delisting hearing on the 8th to worry about right after that. In the event SCO's auction gets the go-ahead on the 6th, I wonder if they'll keep fighting the delisting battle or not. With the Unix biz gone, SCO would be down to the ongoing lawsuits plus a few random odds and ends, and may have no RL presence except for a mailbox at BS&F headquarters. There are plenty of OTC, pink sheet, and grey market companies operating that way, but they don't keep you on the Nasdaq if you don't have any employees anymore.
Meanwhile, the proposed sale is getting a lot of press, understandably. SCO's Unix business may be a sad remnant of what it once was, but a lot of people still care who owns it.
Stories at:
And on comp.unix.sco.misc, not a single word about the proposed sale. You'd think there'd be a little "what does the deal mean for us?" speculation, but no.
I can't find the document now, but one of the recent BK docs mentions that SCO's once-vaunted "DT4" Me Inc./Daytimer app has shuffled off to the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky. The Daytimer company pulled the plug, and SCO's lawyers are considering legal action. Yeah. It'll be just like Project Monterey all over again, and SCO almost made trillions off that one, except for the losing repeatedly in court part. To the moon!!!
Meanwhile, here's a piece about SCO's mysterious litigation in Germany. The article suggests SCO's misrepresenting the case to the BK court, and they're actually trying to silence a critic of theirs over across the pond. All of that would be entirely in character for SCO. I'd like to know more about what's going on here. The redoubtable Al P. mentions the case in his recently filed "Objections of Petrofsky to the Motions of the Debtors".
And for the sake of completeness, the Salt Lake Tribune's piece on SCO's recent layoffs. I actually started a post about it, but it was all schadenfreude and gloating, and writing it felt kind of icky, so I nuked it. So just briefly and for the record, I'm just fine with the court's order sealing the names and personal details of those laid off. It's not that I buy SCO's hysterical hyperbole about ex-employees being harrassed, because I don't see that happening in real life. I just don't see it as very relevant, and the poor chumps have suffered enough already. They drank the Kool-Aid for years on end and followed the Dear Leader all the way into BK court, only to be thrown under the bus when York showed up and started flashing money around. That's got to sting a little. So if anyone's inclined to turn state's evidence, they'll do so without any prompting by well-meaning Linux supporters. It would be interesting to know which departments were affected by the cuts. I'm sure potential bidders would like to know if, for example, the layoffs were all senior Unix dev guys in the New Jersey office, or if they were just fluffy empty-suit jobs like "Community Outreach Coordinator" or "VP of Marketing".
Oh, and there's that delisting hearing on the 8th to worry about right after that. In the event SCO's auction gets the go-ahead on the 6th, I wonder if they'll keep fighting the delisting battle or not. With the Unix biz gone, SCO would be down to the ongoing lawsuits plus a few random odds and ends, and may have no RL presence except for a mailbox at BS&F headquarters. There are plenty of OTC, pink sheet, and grey market companies operating that way, but they don't keep you on the Nasdaq if you don't have any employees anymore.
Meanwhile, the proposed sale is getting a lot of press, understandably. SCO's Unix business may be a sad remnant of what it once was, but a lot of people still care who owns it.
Stories at:
- IT Jungle: "SCO to Sell Unix Wares for $36 Million?". The article briefly mentions that among the treasures York wants to buy are employees' desktop PCs and even the office furniture. Although I vaguely recall that SCO leased its office furniture from a Canopy tentacle at one time. I don't know if that's still true or not, and if I was Canopy I'm not sure I'd want my chairs back after SCO employees had been using them for the last few years. But you have to admit it'd make for an amusing court case.
The piece also speculates about a "fairy tale ending", under which the new York/JDG entity releases the UnixWare and OpenServer code under an open source license. I seriously doubt that's in the cards, but it sure makes for a nice fairy tale, at least. - CNet (Shankland): "SCO hopes selling Unix will raise $36 million"
- InternetNews: "SCO puts Unix up for sale"
- InfoWorld: "SCO To Sell Unix Business?"
- El Reg: "SCO gets offer for Unix biz"
- The Inq: "SCO wants bankruptcy court approval to sell its Unix business". This is story initially reported SCO already had approval to do the deal, a goof the author humbly apologizes for at the end. It's a good piece, and even mentions the possible ties between York and Acacia (of patent troll fame). I'm not entirely sold on that angle just yet, but I do think it's reasonable to regard York with suspicion.
- VNUnetVNUNet
- ComputerWorld"SCO gets 'potential' $36M offer to sell Unix business"
- TechRepublic"SCO wants to sell Unix for cash to continue Linux fight"
- ComputerWorld Australia"SCO Has a Buyer, Pending Bankruptcy Approval"
- Provo Daily Herald"SCO Gets $36M Bid"
- Linux Journal: "Someone Actually Wants SCO?"
- And finally SYS-CON, i.e. MOG: "SCO Gets $16M Offer For Its Unix Business", if you're curious what ~$10k per quarter of SCO's FUD money buys these days.
And on comp.unix.sco.misc, not a single word about the proposed sale. You'd think there'd be a little "what does the deal mean for us?" speculation, but no.
I can't find the document now, but one of the recent BK docs mentions that SCO's once-vaunted "DT4" Me Inc./Daytimer app has shuffled off to the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky. The Daytimer company pulled the plug, and SCO's lawyers are considering legal action. Yeah. It'll be just like Project Monterey all over again, and SCO almost made trillions off that one, except for the losing repeatedly in court part. To the moon!!!
Meanwhile, here's a piece about SCO's mysterious litigation in Germany. The article suggests SCO's misrepresenting the case to the BK court, and they're actually trying to silence a critic of theirs over across the pond. All of that would be entirely in character for SCO. I'd like to know more about what's going on here. The redoubtable Al P. mentions the case in his recently filed "Objections of Petrofsky to the Motions of the Debtors".
And for the sake of completeness, the Salt Lake Tribune's piece on SCO's recent layoffs. I actually started a post about it, but it was all schadenfreude and gloating, and writing it felt kind of icky, so I nuked it. So just briefly and for the record, I'm just fine with the court's order sealing the names and personal details of those laid off. It's not that I buy SCO's hysterical hyperbole about ex-employees being harrassed, because I don't see that happening in real life. I just don't see it as very relevant, and the poor chumps have suffered enough already. They drank the Kool-Aid for years on end and followed the Dear Leader all the way into BK court, only to be thrown under the bus when York showed up and started flashing money around. That's got to sting a little. So if anyone's inclined to turn state's evidence, they'll do so without any prompting by well-meaning Linux supporters. It would be interesting to know which departments were affected by the cuts. I'm sure potential bidders would like to know if, for example, the layoffs were all senior Unix dev guys in the New Jersey office, or if they were just fluffy empty-suit jobs like "Community Outreach Coordinator" or "VP of Marketing".
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
10/23 SNR
It's been a couple of weeks since the last SNR post. My pitiful excuses will have to wait until tomorrow, though, because right now we've got some big news to cover. Hell froze over today, and in related news, SCO has an actual "buyout" offer on the table. I put "buyout" in quotes because it's not quite that simple. York Capital doesn't want the whole company, just certain assets. They're buying SCO's business units, but it doesn't look like that's their real angle. Despite all that blather from MOG about SCO "modularizing", York isn't the eager Me Inc. bagholder, er, buyer we were promised. I can't really fault MOG on that for once, though. I think everyone figured that was the one appendage SCO could slice off and sell successfully. I know that's what I expected to see. But no, the tea leaves (i.e. the proposed APA) suggest York wants into the Linux litigation business. Seriously. You're probably going, wait, there is no Linux litigation business. SCO's claims were debunked years ago, SCOSource withered on the vine for lack of customers, even their media shills have abandoned them at this point, and nobody takes them seriously anymore. What on Earth could York possibly be buying? Unix? I can't see them honestly trying to turn the Unix business around, I mean, nobody's that stupid. And Me Inc., a valuable asset? It is to laugh. All SCO has left to offer is a pile of used lottery tickets, none of them winners, and somehow they hooked themselves a buyer. How is this possible?
The first thing to realize is that investment firms see the world differently than humans do. If you're a fund manager, paying $16M for something that almost certainly doesn't exist may actually seem like a good deal. Fund managers are gamblers by nature, and if you dangle a cheap lottery ticket in front of enough of them, you're bound to get a few bites. It worked on Baystar, and RBC, and Renaissance, and all the others. The difference is that York isn't content to let SCO play the Linux lottery on their behalf. They'd like the right to do it themselves, via a newly constituted entity. I suspect said entity ("NewNewSCO") will operate as a "pure play" IP troll, once they've laid off SCO's remaining engineers, sales & marketing people, and other nonessential staff. Meanwhile, "OldNewSCO", now asset-free, finally becomes the publicly traded lawsuit Baystar wanted them to become several years ago. So instead of one pack of litigious bastards, there'll be two. And I suppose when they're on the brink of losing in court, they'll declare bankruptcy again and undergo another mitosis, and there'll be four, and so on.
Speaking of multiple entities: If I'm reading the deal right, only the York entity will get to call itself SCO (assuming it wants to), since the proposed APA includes trademarks. I wonder if any of the $16M is earmarked for the name, or Darl's tossing it in as a freebie? If York gets all the trademarks, I suppose they could call the new firm Caldera instead, or maybe Vultus, names that are nowhere near as sullied as SCO's, at least not yet. I kind of hope they go with "Vultus", because it's a truly stupid name.
Back in the Baystar era SCO refused to hollow itself out and become a pure lawsuit factory, but now they're all hot for it, and they're proposing an "emergency" fire sale schedule, with an auction to be held December 5th. I think they're betting there won't be any other bidders on this dubious bill of goods. And if anyone else bids, and York loses the auction, they get a nice fat check for at least $780k. This might be a good time to point out that'd be $780k of Novell's money, just so it's clear what's going on here.
So the deal goes on about how each company will share in the other's good fortune if either hits the jackpot, and York proposes to extend a $10M line of credit to SCO. And exchange for that line of credit, York gets to muscle its way to the front of SCO's long line of creditors. Cozy! Naturally SCO, as the distressed party in the deal, has certain unfavorable terms to swallow. First, York doesn't want to buy the Novell and IBM suits. And really, why would they? I certainly wouldn't. Likewise the ongoing Caldera IPO litigation, the "former Indian distributor" case, and all other non-Linux cases still belong to SCO. If I'm reading things right, York gets the AutoZone and possibly the Red Hat cases, and the right to file additional frivolous Linux lawsuits, and (I think) the right to sue over Me Inc. too. My guess is that the last bit is what York really wants. Mobile phone companies have deep pockets and seemingly prefer to pay up instead of fight, so it just might pay to go around filing groundless lawsuits against them. Besides, of all those lottery tickets York wants to buy, Me Inc. is the only one SCO hasn't scratched yet.
This would all make a lot more sense if York was a newly minted bagholder with no prior history with SCO. But as the ever-relentless Panglozz points out, they've had money in SCO since 2004, and even had dealings with Rich Emerson, the M$ guy who arranged the Baystar deal. I'm not saying I see the black hand of Redmond behind the York deal, not yet anyway, but I do think it all looks a bit odd.
Speculating about who's really writing the checks may be a moot point. I just can't see the deal going through as it's currently worded. First, SCO wants to sell the Unix biz, with York I suppose becoming Novell's new agent, for the same 5% cut of the take, all without Novell's consent. Meanwhile, Novell gets to continue suing the eviscerated, asset-stripped husk of SCO. I have this funny feeling they won't accept that sort of arrangement. SCO also proposes to sell the right to file new Linux lawsuits. There's no way for any potential bidder to know what this "asset" is worth at present. I don't see how they could reasonably auction it until certain PSJ's in the IBM case are sorted out. If we're lucky, IBM might "helpfully" point this out and talk the court into unstaying, say, CC10 for example. All in the interest of expediting the BK proceedings, of course.
So in the end, this proposed deal just might turn out to be a good thing. Just not for SCO. The deal's weird enough that I'm going to have to stare at it a while and try to imagine what loopholes and sneaky tricks they've hidden inside of it. And I hope people who actually understand this stuff will do the same. It's a hell of a strange way to carve a turkey, that's all I can say.
The first thing to realize is that investment firms see the world differently than humans do. If you're a fund manager, paying $16M for something that almost certainly doesn't exist may actually seem like a good deal. Fund managers are gamblers by nature, and if you dangle a cheap lottery ticket in front of enough of them, you're bound to get a few bites. It worked on Baystar, and RBC, and Renaissance, and all the others. The difference is that York isn't content to let SCO play the Linux lottery on their behalf. They'd like the right to do it themselves, via a newly constituted entity. I suspect said entity ("NewNewSCO") will operate as a "pure play" IP troll, once they've laid off SCO's remaining engineers, sales & marketing people, and other nonessential staff. Meanwhile, "OldNewSCO", now asset-free, finally becomes the publicly traded lawsuit Baystar wanted them to become several years ago. So instead of one pack of litigious bastards, there'll be two. And I suppose when they're on the brink of losing in court, they'll declare bankruptcy again and undergo another mitosis, and there'll be four, and so on.
Speaking of multiple entities: If I'm reading the deal right, only the York entity will get to call itself SCO (assuming it wants to), since the proposed APA includes trademarks. I wonder if any of the $16M is earmarked for the name, or Darl's tossing it in as a freebie? If York gets all the trademarks, I suppose they could call the new firm Caldera instead, or maybe Vultus, names that are nowhere near as sullied as SCO's, at least not yet. I kind of hope they go with "Vultus", because it's a truly stupid name.
Back in the Baystar era SCO refused to hollow itself out and become a pure lawsuit factory, but now they're all hot for it, and they're proposing an "emergency" fire sale schedule, with an auction to be held December 5th. I think they're betting there won't be any other bidders on this dubious bill of goods. And if anyone else bids, and York loses the auction, they get a nice fat check for at least $780k. This might be a good time to point out that'd be $780k of Novell's money, just so it's clear what's going on here.
So the deal goes on about how each company will share in the other's good fortune if either hits the jackpot, and York proposes to extend a $10M line of credit to SCO. And exchange for that line of credit, York gets to muscle its way to the front of SCO's long line of creditors. Cozy! Naturally SCO, as the distressed party in the deal, has certain unfavorable terms to swallow. First, York doesn't want to buy the Novell and IBM suits. And really, why would they? I certainly wouldn't. Likewise the ongoing Caldera IPO litigation, the "former Indian distributor" case, and all other non-Linux cases still belong to SCO. If I'm reading things right, York gets the AutoZone and possibly the Red Hat cases, and the right to file additional frivolous Linux lawsuits, and (I think) the right to sue over Me Inc. too. My guess is that the last bit is what York really wants. Mobile phone companies have deep pockets and seemingly prefer to pay up instead of fight, so it just might pay to go around filing groundless lawsuits against them. Besides, of all those lottery tickets York wants to buy, Me Inc. is the only one SCO hasn't scratched yet.
This would all make a lot more sense if York was a newly minted bagholder with no prior history with SCO. But as the ever-relentless Panglozz points out, they've had money in SCO since 2004, and even had dealings with Rich Emerson, the M$ guy who arranged the Baystar deal. I'm not saying I see the black hand of Redmond behind the York deal, not yet anyway, but I do think it all looks a bit odd.
Speculating about who's really writing the checks may be a moot point. I just can't see the deal going through as it's currently worded. First, SCO wants to sell the Unix biz, with York I suppose becoming Novell's new agent, for the same 5% cut of the take, all without Novell's consent. Meanwhile, Novell gets to continue suing the eviscerated, asset-stripped husk of SCO. I have this funny feeling they won't accept that sort of arrangement. SCO also proposes to sell the right to file new Linux lawsuits. There's no way for any potential bidder to know what this "asset" is worth at present. I don't see how they could reasonably auction it until certain PSJ's in the IBM case are sorted out. If we're lucky, IBM might "helpfully" point this out and talk the court into unstaying, say, CC10 for example. All in the interest of expediting the BK proceedings, of course.
So in the end, this proposed deal just might turn out to be a good thing. Just not for SCO. The deal's weird enough that I'm going to have to stare at it a while and try to imagine what loopholes and sneaky tricks they've hidden inside of it. And I hope people who actually understand this stuff will do the same. It's a hell of a strange way to carve a turkey, that's all I can say.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
10/4 SNR
Another busy week in Delaware, and once again I've fallen behind in my chronicling duties, as it's also been another busy week in my humble cubicle. So here are the thrilling highlights of this last week in the ongoing SCO soap opera...
- Most SCO items these days are purely schadenfreude news, but today we got one that matters. Novell just filed a motion in Delaware to lift the automatic stay on SCO v. Novell and let the case go to trial. Which it was just about to do, before being so rudely interrupted by all this BK excitement.
So that's important, but I have to say the Novell trial doesn't seem as critical as it once did. Kimball sorted out the copyright issue, and ruled that Novell could waive SCO's claims against IBM and AutoZone, and the remaining bit left for trial was about exactly how much money SCO owed Novell. The exciting part about that was wondering whether losing the case would force SCO into bankruptcy. Now we know the answer to that was "no"; the mere prospect of possibly losing the case forced SCO into bankruptcy.
What I still really want is a ruling on IBM's CC10, a judgement that Linux doesn't infringe on any Unix SysV "IP", regardless of who that "IP" belongs to. In some ways I'm not sure even that is as critical as it once was. The FUD brigade hasn't given up, of course, but these days they always talk about those notorious Microsoft patent claims, and not so much about SCO anymore. - In further rearranging-the-deck-chairs news, Bert Young is out as CFO, replaced by a temp with a background in Utah's vibrant health food industry. I imagine that anyone with a tech background would've heard of SCO already and refused the job. I almost feel bad for the guy, in a way. He probably has no idea what kind of swamp he's just waded into.
- Oh, and Sandy Gupta just got a "big" promotion to President of SCO Operations. SCO Operations being SCO's wholly owned legal subsidiary nobody'd ever heard of prior to the BK filing. No word on what his duties are in the new job, or who's replacing him in charge of SCO's remaining engineering work. Possibly they just don't need anyone for that anymore.
But who cares about job duties at a time like this? The important thing is that Sandy got himself a $40k raise. That's the problem with handing out big raises, like the one Ryan Tibbitts just got. Once word gets out, everybody wants a big raise. It's a tough spot to be in if you're bankrupt, not that it's stopping SCO any. - Here's the biggest schadenfreude item I've seen in quite some time. As a bankrupt company, SCO is required to file monthly reports with the court, explaining what they're doing with their money. We just got the first one of those the other day, and (as you've probably already heard) SCO's supposed to pay $10,500 to a certain Maureen O'Gara. You know, the one who went around shrieking that PJ was a paid mouthpiece for IBM. Granted, we don't actually know what the $10.5k is for. Maybe MOG dabbles in a little VBScript coding in her spare time or something. Or it's an old gambling debt. Or they bought a used car from her, possibly. We don't actually know. But common sense suggests that the money flowing one way and favorable media coverage flowing the other are not wholly unconnected. I bet none of 'em ever figured this would see the light of day, did they? Nelson: Ha, ha!
- Lost in the commotion, SCO got a second delisting notice, this time for their stock being under $1 for a month. They've been there before, and the stock magically (and temporarily) recovered a bit later. It may be more difficult now, though. This is probably not a big deal, they've got 6 months to levitate their shares over a dollar for ten days straight, and they'll probably be delisted for some other cause long before that becomes an issue. Speaking of which, there's a hearing on the earlier delisting letter (the small matter of the BK filing) scheduled for November 8th. So SCO really did manage a significant delay in being delisted. I still have trouble imagining what they'll say at that hearing, though.
- Meanwhile, Darl's been giving a ton of interviews lately, always putting on a brave face and playing tough guy, like it was still 2003 or something. The latest interviews, soon to be major exhibits at a SCO v. Universe court case near you:
Salt Lake Tribune: "SCO chief confident". Apparently they have some super-exciting reorg plans in the works that we'll be hearing about Real Soon Now. No details yet, though. Film at 11.
As other people have already noted, the piece quotes an analyst named Bill Hughes, who has some nice things to say about Me Inc. It just so happens Mr. Hughes was the keynote speaker at SCOForum 2006. Not that a hefty speaker's fee from SCO would color his analysis or anything, certainly not. Heavens no. Perish the thought.
Oh, and DiDio gets a word in too. She argues SCO's mistake was in suing corporate customers. It's not made clear, but the implication seems to be that SCO ought to have gone around suing individual Linux users instead, RIAA-style, even though there's no money in it, certainly no $5 billion instant payday. Seems to me this illustrates the big difference between SCO itself and its longtime media defenders. I've always thought SCO got into the lawsuit business purely for the money. They figured IBM was the biggest bag of money around (other than Microsoft, and they'd already sued M$ back in the Caldera days), so they sued hoping for a big, quick payday. When that didn't pan out, it's been one idiotic backup plan after another. I've lost count now, but we're probably at about plan 9 by now. SCO's media shills, in contrast, tended to be blinkered ideologues (DiDio, Enderle, & Lyons, for example), people who didn't know or care much about SCO itself, and cheered simply because SCO was going to crush the smelly Linux hippies once and for all, clearing the way for our glorious all-Microsoft future, or something like that. Gentle Readers, if you ever see a story where a "successful" tech analyst has gone over the wall and become the successful CEO of a profitable, non-litigious company, let me know, ok? I've never heard of such a thing, and I suspect there's a reason why. - Oh, the other media story's just as good. From ComputerWorld, we have "SCO's McBride: Rumors of our demise are greatly exaggerated" . More of the same, basically. Here's a new bit of classic Darl for ya:
"[There's] the view out there that we're just dead and everybody's claiming victory over SCO," he said. "It's almost like the World Series is over and the only thing that hasn't happened is the victory parade. It's like the Linux faithful are lined up ... for the bad news. They've got their confetti ready to throw and everybody's all excited, and they have their floats. Sam [Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM] has his, Linus [Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel] has his and everybody's pitching in. Groklaw [a Web site that has been monitoring the SCO-IBM case] and their followers are all there. Everybody's saying this thing's all over and now let's have a victory parade."
There's an old Next Generation episode called "Darmok", in which the Enterprise encounters a bizarre alien species which communicates entirely in metaphors. What we're witnessing here is "Darlmok", in which we encounter a bizarre alien creature which communicates entirely in sports metaphors.
That Darl, he sure is a big athletic supporter, that's all I can say. - Meanwhile, more semi-relevant news over on the Unix Heritage Society mailing list, where someone's ported Version 7 UNIX to the x86 architecture. Version 7, you might recall, is one of the ancient Unixes released under a BSD-like license by Old Caldera. Although since Kimball ruled SCO/Caldera didn't get any copyrights in the APA, it might be Novell's code instead. Unless it's public domain and owned by nobody, which is entirely possible under the copyright laws in effect back in the 70's.
Right now the port is only known to work on 80486 and above. Being the Unix Heritage list, people are naturally wondering if there's any reason it can't run on, say, an old 4.77 MHz 8088 box, since both Coherent and [Old]SCO Xenix once did back in the day.
It's interesting how stories about nearly 30 year old OSes almost always have a SCO angle, and stories about current ones almost never do. Funny, that. - Oh, and here's a fun post at LinuxWorld: "Can SCO's mobile stuff really justify Chapter 11 instead of Chapter 7?". The author doesn't think so. I think I've said before, either here or elsewhere, that it probably would't be too hard to put together an open-source equivalent to those ultra-delectable Me Inc. apps, if anybody needed such a thing. The post sweetens the pot a bit:
Anyway, someone want to write open-source equivalants of SCO's "Me Inc." mobile apps -- none of which looks like a whole lot of work? I'll pay you for an article about it, and you can release the code under whatever license you want, and include the article as online or bundled docs. And you'll probably get a link from Groklaw, which means that if you have Google ads on your site you'll make more money from mobile development than SCO will.
That sounds promising. I'd be tempted to do it myself if I had any spare cycles, which I don't. But hey, maybe that's just as well, since I don't have Google ads here either. So feel free to volunteer, I guess that's what I'm trying to say here. - And now we come to perhaps the real reason the SCO charade has to be dragged out a bit longer. From CNet: "Windows Vista SP1 beta lacks 'wow'". So maybe they'll have this all sorted out whenever SP2, or Vista ME, or whatever, finally hits the streets. Unless that fails to impress as well, in which case SCO will have to figure out how to declare double-bankruptcy or something, thus putting the BK proceedings on hold and keeping the nonsense alive for a few years more.
