<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Robert Reese <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@sixit.com">ale@sixit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello David,<br>
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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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</div>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>
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It is only an attempt at delaying the inevitable death of SCO.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">R~<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br clear="all"></div></div></blockquote></div><br>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<br>