When my parents died (separately a couple years apart), both with literally trivial estates, it took the executor nearly a year to finish up.  Of course there was no hurry on his part.   A corporation that's been doing business for more than a decade - and one with multiple and foreign subsidiaries is monstrous in comparison.  The trustee will probably have to try to contact everyone the company might have had business relations with over the past several years, and it will probably be at least three or four back and forth contacts for each one who might have an obligation to or from.  

Once cease-of-operation happens the interesting questions become do Ralph, Darl, and the attornies get "theirs".   Karl and AllParadox seem fairly certain.  I'm considerably less so.  I do suspect some level of sanctions on BSF/JHD et al for their behaviour in this case, but no where near displacing the $30-40M they made from it.  So essentially, yes the lawyers who did this have "won".    Yarro has already, I think paid far more dearly than he ever anticipated going into this - he got booted from Canopy.   Darl is walking around with a "SUE ME" sign on his back. **IF** Novell, RedHat or IBM want him they can pauperize him almost at will ... it will be fun to watch if they do (though that too may play through the courts for three or four years if it happens).

Karl and AllP seem to think there's a real chance of criminal filings coming out of this.  I hope so, but I wouldn't place any bets.