According to SCO, Steven Norris, who heads a group of investors which hopes to rescue SCO from liquidation, received $100,000 for a study he carried out for SCO Japan on emerging markets in Brazil, Russia, India, China, the Middle East and Africa. The company also states that $100,000 was paid from SCO boss Darl McBride's personal funds as payment for Norris' efforts to put together a group of investors to back SCO. It sees the fact that of all its creditors only Novell and IBM have complained about Norris' role and challenged the contracts being drawn up to transfer software development to Unixis, as significant. SCO pugnaciously declares that, "In stark contrast [to the other creditors], IBM and Novell are out for themselves and seek only to avoid the consequences of their wrongful exploitation of the Unix computer code for the benefit of their Linux-related business. It is telling that with one possible minor exception, no other creditor has filed an objection to the sale."
So much is happening at once in the SCO bankruptcy. Novell has filed a Response [PDF] to SCO's Notice of Cure Amounts. Oracle has filed a limited objection [PDF] to SCO's Notice of Cure Amounts and is sending in a lawyer [PDF]. IBM is adding yet another lawyer, Noah J. Phillips [PDF]. Oracle has a claim listed on Exhibit A [also continued here], but it says it has no clue what contract is involved.
Dude, Novell won. You lost. Get over it. No one harmed you if you don't own the copyrights. And if the contract says Novell can block your litigious moves, that's what the judge said the contract says. That isn't harm to you. It's harm to Novell that it had to go into court and deal with bogus claims to establish the obvious. As for IBM, I believe it is going to wipe the floor with you, as I'm certain you know by now, even if by some miracle the copyrights became yours after all. That's because you have been unable to demonstrate any meaningful infringement.
--Larry Goldfarb, Baystar, key investor in SCO