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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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 <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Larry Johnson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, July 13, 2010 7:47
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts -
Yes! We run Linux!<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] SCO at it again</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Robert Reese <<a
href="mailto:ale@sixit.com">ale@sixit.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hello David,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:54:28 PM, you wrote:<br>
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> I thought SCO was long gone dead and buried. Seems they are filing<br>
> another lawsuit...<br>
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> <a href="http://3pfb.sl.pt" target="_blank">http://3pfb.sl.pt</a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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.<br>
<br>
It is only an attempt at delaying the inevitable death of SCO.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888"><span style='color:#888888'>R~</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Larry <br>
-- <br>
"I see design standards that don't tell you how to come up with a good
design (only how to write it down), employee evaluation standards that don't
help you build meaningful long-term relationships with staff, testing standards
that don't tell you how to invent a test that is worth running."<br>
<br>
Tom DeMarco<br>
Slack<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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