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Re: How the World (of SCOX) Ends (4.00 / 10) (#6)
by Napoleon Reddress on Sun Jul 31st, 2005 at 12:31:49 EST
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I kind of agree the actual end will be disappointing. Mettler has been saying for ages that the logic of it will not permit it to go far enough to give Linux a clean bill of health. But I am not so sure about ending the cases by mutual agreement. Not sure what happens to the cases with bankruptcy, but this seems to have gone so far that the balance of advantage for notSCO parties, I would have thought, is now to plough on, see what turns up and let the court rule. Novell understand that SCO is near its end, but they are asking for discovery on some interesting issues and I can't see anything to induce them to finish by mutual agreement, short of a complete kit inspection of all dirty linen. What has happened is a once in a generation order of magnitude over the top outrage, where I would think the notSCO parties would do better not to end anything by mutual agreement.

Timing is everything here, I sort of think that Novell have calculated that by putting SCO in trust now, they will have it in suspended near death. Bankruptcy administrators would probably have the sole activity of following through on the legal actions and producing discovery on demand. Once notSCO have got to the bottom of it, they will probably have discovery which is worth infinitely more in future cases than a closure of current cases on their terms would be. Only when that happens, can I see the administrators will be cut adrift. The most difficult issue, is keeping the key players in position for long enough.

But I agree, we won't hear most of the juicy bits for a long time. So much so, that I think we should define the end point as ceasing to trade, because there will never be another clear point at which to celebrate
2 legs==4 legs = bad==good

Re: How the World (of SCOX) Ends by ColonelZen, 07/31/2005 12:42:32 EST (4.16 / 6)

Re: How the World (of SCOX) Ends by Napoleon Reddress, 07/31/2005 13:47:14 EST (3.80 / 5)

Re: How the World (of SCOX) Ends by ColonelZen, 07/31/2005 14:01:35 EST (3.80 / 5)

Re: How the World (of SCOX) Ends by br3n, 07/31/2005 13:17:34 EST (3.80 / 5)

Re: How the World (of SCOX) Ends by AncientBrit, 07/31/2005 14:40:38 EST (3.40 / 5)

Y SCOX pull: Novell Springs the trap by ColonelZen, 07/31/2005 13:35:00 EST (3.80 / 5)

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