SCO Assets Going To October Auction

An anonymous reader noted that the SCO Group is having a bankruptcy auction in October. The article says 'After bankruptcy in September 2007, SCO and an affiliate filed schedules listing combined assets of $14.2 million and debt totaling $5.2 million.' I wonder if we could all chip in and buy something as a sort of 'Thanks for being a pimple on the face of humanity' present.

First bid!

[grub]

$50 for Darl McBride's greased Yoda doll!

who would of knew

[Dyinobal]

Who would of knew suing people is not a viable business model, I mean it works for all those other patent trolls.

Hmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

But sco.com and redirect it to goat.cx (or whatever they call it)?

Re:First bid!

[WrongSizeGlass]

I didn't see the rights to Unix listed in their assets for sale. Must be an oversight or something ...

Re:who would of knew

[XanC]

You've created a unique combination of errors in your sentence. I am baffled as to what's going on in your head.

I'll take the UNIX copyrights and SYSV rights

[mysidia]

For $10

So I can start a small litigious company to aggressively defend Linux and pursue proprietary "Windows" OS vendor(s) whose names start with "M".

Re:First bid!

[jusdisgi]

Might be time to finally change my sig...

Sco Auction?

[fishthegeek]

Yes!!! Anyone have change for a dollar? It's biddin' time!

Re:Something nice for the kids

[Tackhead]

Well I work about 5 minutes from their old HQ (in fact I'm going to a meeting in that office park tomorrow)...anyone in the /. community want me to pick up something nice?

Yeah. I'll take Darl McBride's head on a spike. I'm willing to go as high as $100.

You're outbid. "I'd also like to be there when they cut off Darl McBride's head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations of intellectual property lawyers that for some favors, even $600 is too high a price. I would look up into his lifeless eyes and wave, like this. *smileywave*. Can you the United States Trustees arrange that for me, Judge Stewart?"
- What the CEO of Novell should have said when the case was finally closed.

Why wait?

[mknewman]

Why wait? I'll sell you several boxes full of SCO licenses, manuals and disks! ODT 3.0 on! Great for your Labor Day bonfire!

As I recall

[fwarren]

I believe my share is supposed to be $699 per CPU.

Better put me down for several thousand dollars. I have installed Linux quite a few times

Re:First bid!

[Locke2005]

They would show it to you, but they lost it in a pile of pixie dust and unicorn manure...

Re:First bid!

[Darinbob]

"I went to SCO's out of business auction, and all I got was this tee-shirt they didn't own"

Re:who would of knew

[jgagnon]

It's the SCO defense... where have you been?

Could we buy the brand?

[Qbertino]

Couldn't the slashdot community buy the brand? If everybody donates a few bucks and we bid that sum for the brand and then use it to release FOSS, print cool t-shirts and use the sco website to make fun and jokes about MS, Mc Bride or whatever the f*ck his name is and his entourage. Wouldn't that be worth it? Ever since they did the caldera back-and-forth and then switched to pissing of the entire nix community the brand is dead anyway. It can't be that expensive, no?

We could also release a debian rebrand as 'SCO Unix 2010' for 200$ a pop and donate the proceeds to EFF, FSF and any other organisation that goes against patent and IP trolls. That would actually be usefull, no?

Just an idea.

Re:Zits

[Camel Pilot]

"Pimple on the face of humanity."

That's a rather delicate way of putting it. I confess to having a lower opinion.

You mean like a pimple on a lower part of the anatomy?

Re:First bid!

[Phat_Tony]

Actually, I'm curious what kind of price used FUD goes for.

Re:Or his house?

[PseudonymousBraveguy]

Nice house, but I'd fear it's haunted by the ghosts of the countless unicorns he had to kill to keep SCOX un-dead for so long.