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| EMC Objects to SCO's Cure Amount and a Tiny Bill from Tanner Arrives |
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Thursday, October 21 2010 @ 04:34 PM EDT
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All the intricacies of SCO never alter the big picture, do they? The first objection has arrived to SCO's recently-filed cure amounts. And shades
of DaimlerChrysler, check out the reason:
As agent for the creditor, EMC Corporation ("EMC") who acquired Data General Corporation ("DGC"), we object to the Debtors' proposed assignment and cure amount for a "Source License Agreement" with DGC. EMC is not aware of an ongoing contractual arrangement with the Debtors. In fact, service and maintenance support between the parties stopped almost two (2) years ago.
In order to properly evaluate the assumption and cure, EMC will need the Source License Agreement, together with a list of all equipment related to the Agreement. Without this information, EMC cannot agree to anything.
Funny, no? What license agreement? Nothing ever really changes in the SCOniverse. And the cherry on top is that the letter comes from Receivables Management Services, and so their letterhead shows a big RMS. If you put that in a movie, unless you were Groucho, people would say you were over the top silly.
There is also a tiny bill from Tanner for August, and here are the filings:
10/20/2010 - 1186 - Affidavit/Declaration of Service of Eleni Manners Re: Notice of Cure Amounts in Connection With the Assumption and Assignment of Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases (related document(s) 1184 ) Filed by Edward N. Cahn, Chapter 11 Trustee for The SCO Group, Inc., et al.. (Fatell, Bonnie) (Entered: 10/20/2010)
10/20/2010 - 1187 - Monthly Application for Compensation of (Twenty-Fourth) of Tanner LC for the period August 1, 2010 to August 31, 2010 Filed by Tanner LC. Objections due by 11/9/2010. (Attachments: # 1 Notice # 2 Exhibit A # 3 Certificate of Service) (Fatell, Bonnie) (Entered: 10/20/2010)
10/21/2010 - 1188 - Objection to Notice of Cure Amounts in Connection with the Assumption and Assignment of Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases. (related document(s) 1184 ) Filed by Receivable Management Services Agent for EMC Corporation (BMT) (Entered: 10/21/2010)
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, October 21 2010 @ 04:48 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, October 21 2010 @ 04:49 PM EDT |
Please remember those clickies, and don't forget to post in HTML mode where
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, October 21 2010 @ 04:51 PM EDT |
Please remember to indicate which Groklaw newspick item you are referring to in
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, October 21 2010 @ 04:52 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 21 2010 @ 06:01 PM EDT |
Will be funny if SCO can't find the source license agreement .. at the end of
the day, they need it to be able to sell whatever "combined product"
it is they made from it or whatever ... if they can;t find it, then I guess
thats an "asset" they can't sell ... I can't see that EMC corp is
under any obligation to provide them with a copyu or even look to hard for it.
I have an idea where it is though ... its in Blepp's briefcase ;)[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Thursday, October 21 2010 @ 06:34 PM EDT |
This seems very off. It sounds like the creditor doesn't know what is owed and
that EMC may have sold turned the debt over to a collections agency, or possibly
sold it?
RMS is a collection agency but they also offer "Bankruptcy Services"
http://www.rmsna.com/global-services/bankruptcy-services/
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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| Authored by: sgtrock on Thursday, October 21 2010 @ 09:08 PM EDT |
I would have joined the throng when you first announced the news, but my
password didn't like me. It took a while to figure out why. :)
In any event, my thanks for all your hard work. This recognition from the EFF
is long in coming and most definitely on target.
Congratulations, and thank you again![ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: meissner on Friday, October 22 2010 @ 01:24 AM EDT |
Data General originally made mini computers based on its Nova processor, then
Eclipse, and MV/Eclipse. It later switched to 88k based machined (AViiON),
which later migrated to x86 processors. EMC bought Data General, primarily for
the CLARiiON line of disk storage, and eventually shut down the computer
business. So, in terms of SCO, I doubt EMC has shipped anything containing SCO
code in years.
I worked for DG from 1979 to 1989, eventually writing the front end of the C
compiler for the MV/Eclipse, and then moving on to work on the 88k backend to
GCC, and it was the first of 6 companies I have worked for on GCC. When I
worked for them, the DG/UX operating system was based on System V (System V.4 if
memory serves, but it may have V.3 instead). In terms of what a compiler writer
sees, the DG Nova/Eclipse systems were horrible. The 88k was more regular, but
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 22 2010 @ 10:55 AM EDT |
| John R. Egan, Egan Managed Capital, was on the SCO and Caldera boards. Egan was
an investor in Caldera at the time of the DR-DOS lawsuit shakedown of MSFT.
Egan was a board member of Lineo, the Canopy-Yarro embeded Linux venture,
that bankrupted.
Egan exited SCOX on the share price appreciation that
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| Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Friday, October 22 2010 @ 01:17 PM EDT |
Tanner charged for 1 person for 2.30 hours each for a total of $500.00.
That works out to $ 217.391304347826 per hour. Odd.
Also how can Madsen have telephone expense if there was no time for Madsen on
the project? Plus the dates don't match.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 22 2010 @ 01:54 PM EDT |
With the acquisition of DG so far in the past, the EMC
staffer who handled
the court notice may have completely
misunderstood.
I guess the Cure
Amounts notice is about the trade value
of SCO's end of an old SCOunix license
(not an USL/Novell
license) TO DG/EMC granting DG/EMC the right to use oldSCO
UNIX and source code provided they pay an annual fee for
each computer they
choose to run it on. The small trade
value is based on the small possibility
that DG/EMC might
one day decide to dust off the old floppy disks and boot the
thing, thus having to pay the annual fee for that future
year.
But the
EMC staffer probably misread it as being an
EMC/DG software/hardware licence TO
SCOX allowing SCOX to
use an EMC product on specified EMC/DG hardware such as
Clariion. The staffer would then assume this to be a
sale/transfer of that
license to the auction winner, for
which EMC approval would be routinely
requested. As their
customer database has no current entry for such a license,
the staffer treated it as an attempt to sell a "pirated"
copy of software for
which SCOX no longer has a license to
sell, and handed it over to EMC's
collection agency.
The information demanded from SCOX is exactly the
proof
of purchase information they would ask for when someone
claims to have a
license not in their customer database.
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| Authored by: _Arthur on Friday, October 22 2010 @ 04:34 PM EDT |
| Filing #1189. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 22 2010 @ 05:11 PM EDT |
Nope. See Exhibit A, the hourly rate is given at $ 217.39, multiplied by 2.3
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