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| SCO Amends Its November Monthly Operating Reports & an OpenWengo Request |
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Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 03:33 AM EST
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SCO files some adjusted math, filing amended November monthly operating reports for SCO Group and SCO Operations. And Texas withdraws its appearance in the bankruptcy. Either they got paid, or they have given up all hope, which is probably rational. If you are not a math guru, perhaps you'd prefer instead to help OpenWengo come up with a new name and/or logo.
Update: SCO has issued a statement to the Salt Lake Tribune, stating that "Company officials are eager to appeal Kimball's ruling, believing they will win a reversal." For five years, SCO told us they were eager for their day in court, believing they would win. They got their day, and they lost. Now they tell us they are eager for an appeal, confident they will win there. I discern a pattern perchance. SCO also told the Trib that the current layoffs are to "right-size" the company to ensure financial viability. So believe what you will.
Here are the filings:
337 - Filed & Entered: 02/11/2008
Notice of Withdrawal (B)
Docket Text: Notice of Withdrawal of Notice of Appearance (related document(s)[54] ) Filed by Texas Comptroller Of Public Accounts. (Browning, Mark)
338 - Filed & Entered: 02/11/2008
Operating Report
Docket Text: Amended Debtor-In-Possession Monthly Operating Report for Filing Period October 2007 for SCO Operations, Inc. (related document(s)[227] ) Filed by The SCO Group, Inc.. (Attachments: # (1) Certificate of Service and Service List) (O'Neill, James)
339 - Filed & Entered: 02/11/2008
Operating Report
Docket Text: Amended Debtor-In-Possession Monthly Operating Report for Filing Period November 2007 for SCO Operations, Inc. (related document(s)[283] ) Filed by The SCO Group, Inc.. (Attachments: # (1) Certificate of Service and Service List) (O'Neill, James)
If you'd like to compare this amended filing with the original, you can find SCO's November operations report here for SCO Operations and here for SCO Group [PDFs]. If you compare #283 with 338 and 282 with 339, you can compare line by line. You'll recall that a math error was brought to the court's attention in a later resolved objection: 3. The November monthly operating report for SCO Operations, Inc. reports a surprisingly rosy bottom line of positive $406,433 for cumulative net income since the date of the petition (dkt #283, dated December 20, 2007, at p. 9, Statement of Operations). However, if one adds the reported profit for the November period, $1,081,019 (Id.), to the reported cumulative loss through the October period, ($1,138,859) (dkt #227, dated November 20, 2007, at p. 9, Statement of Operations), one discovers that -- if those two numbers are indeed correct -- the cumulative net income through the end of November should have been reported as a loss of ($57,840). (There are multiple reasons to suspect that the $1,081,019 reported profit for November is also the result of a favorable error, and I will be asking the Debtors to double-check that figure, but even if it is correct, the reported cumulative income-to-date is almost half a million dollars too high.) Here's the referenced October report, #227 on the docket.
OpenWengo Request
Here's the request from Vadim Lebedev regarding OpenWengo:
Hello Pamela
I'm CTO of MBDSYS - the new sponsor of OpenWengo project (GPL'd mutliplatform softphone).
We've recently assumed the sponsorship of the project from original sponsor - Wengo.
For obvious reasons we're looking for a new name for the project and/or for the software which is/was called Wengophone.
I wonder if the Groklaw community will have an idea for a new name and/or logo.
Basically would GrokLaw like to become god(father/mother) for the project?
All suggestions will be welcome on wengophone-devel at lists.openwengo.com Please leave your ideas here, by all means, in addition. It sounds fun to me. By the way, they can use coders too. I had one idea for a name, which I sent in, but you guys are very clever, and you'll probably come up with better ones. When the need was first made known in a comment, an anonymous comment was left that makes a lot of sense as a jumping off point:
a) make 2 columns
b) in left hand column make a list of 20, 30, 40 individual words of what
"it"
does.
c) in right hand column list of of 20, 30, 40 individual words how user
benefits or how its better than competitor
d) then go through umpteen thousand variations picking a word from left
hand column and one word from right hand column - and combining the two
in one way or another.
Sounds sensible. Flights of fancy are fun too, though, and will result in a stronger name. So, let's see if we can come up with something creative.
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| Authored by: jrvalverde on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 03:41 AM EST |
So PJ knows.
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Jose R. Valverde
EMBnet/CNB[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: jrvalverde on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 03:43 AM EST |
Please, remember to make links clickable.
And PJ, you should take some more sleep. This can be no good for your health.
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Jose R. Valverde
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| Authored by: Waterman on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 04:04 AM EST |
| Just drop the "n" in Wengo. Say as "Open We go." :-) [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 08:15 AM EST |
The software should just be called "Howl" and the logo would be a wolf
siloette howling into a microphone, wearing earphones.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 09:19 AM EST |
Show combinations of csv file with 2 columns as described in the name-generation
algorithm.
#/usr/bin/ruby
col1 = []
col2 = []
$stdin.each_line do |line|
word1,word2 = line.chomp.split(',')
col1 << word1
col2 << word2
end
col1.each do |word|
col2.each do |other_word|
puts "#{word}#{other_word}"
end
end
Oh, and if each column has 40 entries, that is still only 40*40 combinations.
Not umpteen thousand, just 1.6. :)[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 10:27 AM EST |
I'd go with something like OpenHearSay.
I was trying to figure out a way to include the video part and came up with
OpenHearSee or HearSee. Not the best ones in that respect, but I will keep
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| Authored by: Peter Baker on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 10:51 AM EST |
I think these boys really think they can pull a Microsoft on Kimball but it
seems to me more likely to result in a firm determination to make a loss in
Court so watertight you could keep helium stored in it.
However, God help us if the clowns participating in this farce don't get the
punishment they deserve because you'll find that now practically every company
under threat of honest competition will "try a SCO".
Just my $0.02..
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 11:04 AM EST |
It's clear there was a statement--snippets
in quotation marks are sprinkled through
the article. But as I read the SLT article,
the "eager to appeal" bit looks like a fact
included by the reporter rather than part of
that statement.
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| Authored by: John Hasler on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 11:27 AM EST |
> For obvious reasons we're looking for a new name for the
> project and/or for the software which is/was called
> Wengophone.
Please elucidate. It will be easier for people to come up with acceptable names
if they know what you find unacceptable about the present one.
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IOANAL. Licensed under the GNU General Public License[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 11:43 AM EST |
| Has SCO given any indication of what grounds they intend to appeal on? [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Eeyore on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 12:14 PM EST |
What about some phone booth analogies....
Maybe "Public Phone" or "Phone Booth".[ Reply to This | # ]
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- OpenWengo - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 05:17 PM EST
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 12:32 PM EST |
| SCO has a non-bankrupt subsidiary in Japan. Bank balances at this operation
changed from $1,889,877.97 on Nov 30 to $707,580 on Dec 31. This is a
change of - $(1,182,298).
The Japanese operation owes Novell
royalties, payable outside the purview of bankruptcy, and it appears the bank
balances are now insufficient to meet this obligation in the non-bankrupt
subsidiaries. Worldwide non-bankrupt royalties payable to Novell in December
$1,223,388. The total worldwide non-bankrupt subsidiary balance was
$36,793.60. This means the royalty obligation is unfunded.
There is no
explanation why the Japanese bank balance, which was stable from Sept-Novemeber,
suddenly dropped in December. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: dhcolesj on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 12:47 PM EST |
SCO also told the Trib that the current layoffs are to "right-size"
the company to ensure financial viability. So believe what you
will.
Of course it "right sizes" the company, I mean the closer to
zero it gets the more "right" it is. I mean, they didn't say whose viability
ours or theirs. :-D
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See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16! [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: DMF on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 01:05 PM EST |
For the SJs were adjudicated, in whole or in part -- can't those decisions be
appealed immediately? If SCO's so hot to trot, why don't they trot?
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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 01:23 PM EST |
"SCO files some adjusted math"
Creative accounting? ;-)
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| Authored by: The Simulator on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 03:23 PM EST |
No matter how many people SCO fire or hire, I don't believe it will be the
"right" size as long as they retain the services of their
litigation-loving CEO. Step forward and out the door please, Darl
"Millions of lines" McBride.
At least Darl has largely kept his big mouth shut of late (which is the primary
reason that this whole saga is a lot less entertaining than it used to be).
Incidentally, how much money has Darl personally made out of his management
debacle? Inflated salary and "bonuses" - whatever for? - aside, SCO
stock was worth around $2 per share when he took over. He sold a large amount
of stock when it was briefly around $15 and up - nice little profit there - and,
following his courtroom antics, it's now worth around $0.08 per share. Who says
crime doesn't pay?
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Simulation engineers do it with models virtually every day![ Reply to This | # ]
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- "Right-Sizing" - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 03:40 PM EST
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| Authored by: sk43 on Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 08:44 PM EST |
| The above five files were listed in the
Swartz memo as having
been
improperly copied from SCO's proprietary UNIX code. They are part of
the
"ncurses" package.
The latest version of these files is now available, for
anyone who wishes
the check out SCO's claims. The copyright statement in each
file reads as
follows:
* Copyright (c) 1998-2003,2004 Free
Software Foundation, Inc.
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* Permission is hereby granted, free of
charge, to any person obtaining a
* copy of this software and associated
documentation files (the
* "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including
* without limitation the rights to use, copy,
modify, merge, publish,
* distribute, distribute with modifications,
sublicense, and/or sell
* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to
whom the Software is
* furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:
*
* The above copyright notice and this permission notice
shall be included
* in all copies or substantial portions of the
Software.
The files can be conveniently obtained from
here:
ftp2.s
co.com/skunkware/osr5/src/libraries/ncurses-5.4.tar.gz
.
They were
posted on Jan 31, 2008 - 12 days ago.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 13 2008 @ 12:01 PM EST |
| Probably won't be selected, but I like GnuPhone. Its the New Phone!!!!! [ Reply to This | # ]
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