SCO Layoffs Begin 30
StevisF sends us to the Salt Lake Tribune for this news: "SCO Group Inc. says it is planning to lay off 16 of its 123 employees and has asked a federal bankruptcy court to keep their identities secret because it fears they could be harassed."
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It's over.
We're free...
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Re:What? No comments...? (Score:4, Insightful)
The problem is that this is anti-climactic. They haven't laid off everybody but the book-keeper. They're still technically in reorganization, not terminal bankruptcy. SCO hasn't yet been delisted. No criminal charges have been filed. SCO has been so bad, we want blood. To paraphrase Conan, we want "to crush SCO, to see them driven before us, and to rejoice in the lamentations of their women".
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I ce that.
What is there to say? (Score:2)
Laying off about 15% of the workforce is never a good sign, and asking that they be kept anonymous (did they ask the employees to sign non-disclosure agreements about their employment status? I hope they'll be able to get unemployment if they did!) would be funny if it didn't seem so pathetic.
Start? They never stopped. (Score:5, Informative)
Not too long ago, the SCO Group (Caldera) had hundreds of employees in several offices in the US and overseas. The SCO Group has had many layoffs since 2001. Someone even went to the trouble of graphing the history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SCO-2001-2006-headcount-by-department.jpg [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group#Charts [wikipedia.org]
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Harassment (Score:2)
Wow. I'm about to comment on. . . (Score:2)
But something did strike me about this story which I wanted to share. .
I find it amazing that such a small group of people, 123, could cause so much trouble for so many years. Luckily they were few enough to fall beneath the tide of the collective free-time efforts of the entire good-will internet. Job well done. I hope none of that 123 get hired ever again. --But that's a slim hope in this world. Typically, bombing out in a psychopathic organization is like p
Re:Wow. I'm about to comment on. . . (Score:4, Insightful)
The lawyers, alas, have already gotten rich off this and I don't think destroying them is within our power. Darl McBride and the top executives have probably managed to funnel money out of the company by selling stock. Anyway, they'll be last to be laid off, for sure.
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Sure, but the people who are now at SCO are neither the original Santa Cruz Operation, which became Tarantella, nor the people from Caldera, which eventually turned into the SCO group. The people in charge, and as far as I know, pretty much everyone else at this point, are new people who had nothing to do with SCO Unix or Linux.
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They are setting up Golden Parachutes (Score:3, Insightful)
They are not just hiding the names, they want the compensation packages kept secret. Now Daryl and his cronies can place whatever cash the company has remaining into their parachutes before bailing, and the creditors (and public) will never hear a word about it, and that cash will be "off the table" for creditors to grab.
Nobody goes after laid-off employees. How stupid do they think the judge is? Lots of people lost lot
Deja Vu? (Score:1)
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The lawsuits were mostly handled by the SCO group's legal team, which was probably run by an external lawfirm working on contact.
it proves you're one of the boys
You're speaking about certain executives within the SCO group.
Outside of the executive team, SCO Employees mostly maintained the legacy SCO products (Unixware, OpenServer), and probably had very little to do with the 'trouble'. Their mistake was n
would YOU hire them? (Score:2)
More likely this is simply a nice move to try to protect the ones that get laid off. I mean, "ex-SCO employee" is not exactly a gem on your resume. Anyone considering an ex-SCO must consider two things... (1) you were involved with SCO and all their crap till the bitter end, and (2) you were too stupid to get while the getting was good.
I kinda feel sorry for the employees. (Score:4, Interesting)
Don't blame employees for managerial fuckups.
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Any person investing in SCO or working for SCO, at this point (and in my opinion mind you), deserves any and all consequences forthcoming. It matters not to me their personal status as they had ample opportunity to consciously endure working for these small-minded greedy twits.
Thousands of people i
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"I was just working there" ain't much more convincing than "I was just following orders", neither of which gets you off the hook if you're helping evil.
Unless you hold that it's reasonable to stay lojal to your employer no-mater-what the company is up to, and *then* later to turn around and claim "I was just working there, it's not my fault." That argument ain't particularily valid when working there is very much optional.
I wouldn't hire an ex-SCO
Hmm, how to express our sympathy... (Score:3, Funny)
Everybody except... (Score:2)
Suddenly privacy is important again? (Score:1)
That's great. At least