SCO Springs a Prospective Buyer

clemenstimpler sends a link to Groklaw, which has been following the proceedings dealing with the conversion of SCO's bankruptcy to Chapter 7 (i.e., liquidating the company). SCO has announced a prospective buyer. "...SCO has suggested it has a buyer. That doesn't mean it will avoid Chapter 7 of course, nor does it mean that the bankruptcy court will OK the suggested sale. But it likely does mean more delay, which is what this is likely all about. SCO very much wants to wait until the appeals court rules in SCO v. Novell. ... Hearing set for July 16 with backup for July 27. SCO has already moved to make it July 27. combo hearing on convert and sale. Frankly, it would not totally amaze me if the three entities that filed motions to convert were to appeal this. If not, SCO got its desired delay."

For our Benefit

[nametaken]

They're dragging it out so we can savor it.

Re:Paging Buffy Summers...

[SonOfFlubber]

"decomposing zombie clawing its' way up out of the ground" ....

.... Darl of the Dead?

I get it

[Starlon]

They're getting a bailout! The government will now own Linux.

Justice

[davro]

Give the judge a trench gun and be done with these pesky zombies.

The REAL reason

[Linker3000]

I understand they just need a bit more time to conclude their purchase of the Duke Nukem Forever codebase and issue a call for investors to fund completion of this vital work.

Oh, there won't be a game coming out of all this - SCO will have a pile of algorithms and methods specific to the gaming world stretching back as far as the first annoucement of DNF and so they can then start to examine games produced since that date from all the big players to see if they have 'pinched' anything.

3. Profit

Re:Hiding the money

[jrumney]

Yes, divide that by the number of sales per annum, and you'll quickly see that SCO has infinite value.

Re:The REAL reason

[forgotten_my_nick]

"I understand they just need a bit more time to conclude their purchase of the Duke Nukem Forever codebase and issue a call for investors to fund completion of this vital work."

Based on previous experience I suspect they would be more likely to buy that codebase, then claim others had stolen that code in their own FPS games and offer to allow end users to license to use a product for a small fee. Then sue EA, pump shares, dump shares, lose and then file for bankruptcy.

Potential buyer

[Joe U]

I almost bought SCO. But I spent the $10 at McDonalds instead.

Re:Paging Buffy Summers...

[hedwards]

We should go all in and just bring in Bruce Campbell, he's only a hundred, I'm sure he can still fight off a horde of IP attorneys and zombies.