...And then, use the precedent to send the Koch Brothers, Exxon, AT&T and a thousand other corporations and lobbyists in jail where they belong (unlike Marc).
square footage at address, city; property type; tenant; procuring agent; owner; listing agent; deal date (occupancy/effective date)
790sf at 591 Redwood Hwy., #2145, Mill Valley; office; Prenda Law; Michael Golden of CT; na; Brian Foster of CT; Dec. 15
I see some parrallels with the ZER01 affair.
-ZER01 was supposed to offer mobile internet at half the price the carriers then charged
-ZER01 was a sensation at 2009 CES (they won an award)
-ZER01 was making a lot of technically unsound claims
-ZER01 CEO's resume was pure fantasy, and contained outrageous claims of inventions.
ZER01 didn't sue the journalist that broke the story. The CEO claimed he would prove all his critics wrong, but the product never launched.
In the The 1994 USL-Regents of UCal Settlement Agreement (which has been made public due to the effirts of a Groklaw reader), AT&T and the Regents agree that the code at issue is Public Domain:
""e. Without waiving any of its proprietary rights therein, USL agrees that UNIX Derived Files listed in Exhibit B, or any material therein, may be freely distributed by the University and may be freely reproduced and redistributed by others without payment of any royalties or fees and without execution of any license agreement with USL and/or the University, provided such files or portions thereof include, in text form, a USL Copyright Notice and the same list of restrictions on use and redistribution of the software presently contained in the Net2 version of the file."
see http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041126130302760
What SCO is selling are the legacy OSes Unixware and Openserver.
Those OSes cannot run on modern computers, they need to be run with a virtualization tool (sold extra) that makes the OS think it's running on a 1990-era CPU.
SCO has not gained any new customers since 2003, and they have lost most of their legacy users since then. They have raised their prices several times since, and never turned up a profit. SCOXQ.pk current market cap is $1.75M
So, someone that buys UnixWare+OpenServer + the 7 remaining tech people, gets a marginal product that's a proven money-loser, that loses 20% of its few remaining customers every year.
First Santa Cruz and later Caldera (The SCO Group) have attempted to produce a 64-bits version of UnixWare for the last 15 years, and have failed miserably.
If anyone wants its own 64-bit OS that badly, they'd be better off starting with BSD that cost nothing and is public domain code.
The first $2M of the sale proceeds will go to an investors group headed by Ralph Yarro, which has superpriority over any creditor.
Yes, it is the very same Hop-On (HPNN.pk).
During the mid-2000s, Hop-On had a very marginal operation, selling disposable phones in the Middle-East. Just imagine.
Hop-On is 3+ years delinquent in its SEC filings, which means the SEC can pull the plug on them anytime, just like what happened to Phantom Entertainment, née Infinium Labs.
Hop-On unaudited 2009 financials show no sales, no inventory, no revenues of any kind, $173K in expenses, heaps of payables and debts, including a bank overdraft. Any normanl company woulf have long declared bankruptcy and moved on.
Hop-On only know economic activity is emitting press releases. Every single press release raises the price of its sub-sub-sub penny stock. That's how the game is played in that "market". Being delinquent in their filings, HPNN is not allowed to emit billions of new shares anymore, small mercies.
In its latest paid-for press releases, Hop-On was considering the acquisition of a VOIP company...
And then, there is their partnership with USAcig to peddle propylene-glycol+nicotine jelly cartridges based "Electric Cigarettes" ...
In one of the many twists of the ZER01 tale, another truly putrid company, Hop-On Inc, has announced its partnership with Global Verge to sell nicotine delivery devices, "Electric Cigarettes". So far, Global Verge has not acknowledged this "partnership".
Another former ZER01 partner, Pervasip Inc, has launched its own $69 VOIP service for the Nokia N900 Maemo. So far, no known sales.
Global Verge also sells the "Golden Eggs™", a pair of brass balls that purify tap water or bottled water...
No point. SCO, after 3 years of bankruptcy, and losing money all the while, is in sad, sad shape.
The Delaware judge had the opportunity to put it out of its misery, but instead he named a Trusted, who put the company even more in the red, and now vows to keep the litigation going.
It is hard to get a headcount of SCO-DIP; maybe 20 peoples.
The hotel costs and other costs for the 3-weeks trial must run up to $200K, a tidy sum for a company that is dead flat broke.
Reason2, SCO used to be a real company, called Caldera.
They had one of the most successful IPO ever (as a Linux company), back in the dotcom era. Their main product was Caldera Linux.
Their moneymaker (moneyloser, since SCO has never posted a profit) is SCO UnixWare and SCO Openserver, two legacy OSes that cannot compete either with Windows (any version) or Linux.
They announced with great fanfare that they would become a player in the Mobile arena, but it took them 3 years to launch a product for the iPhone, FC MobileLife, $4.99 ranked #337 in Productivity apps.
They have been in bankruptcy for the past 3 years. After 2.5 years the Delaware judge named a Trustee, who have worked hard to keep the Litigation alive, by racking up $600K of past-due payable (by not paying the bankruptcy lawyers).
Currently they are seeking approval for an asset sale, their whole Mobile Division, including 12 servers and several software product, to their former CEO, for ... $35,000 (the sale cost more than that to set up).
The have announced another upcoming asset sale, a JAVA virtual machine patent (probably invalid due to prior art and obviousness), for $100K...
They have recently obtained a $2M loan from their main shareholder, which gives him superpriority over any other creditors, and first dibs on the IP that SCO happens to own.
The latest news I saw, Verge was telling its associates not to worry about Zer01 severing its relationship with Buzzirk and Verge, they would have ANOTHER phone peddler lined up real soon now, in a matter of days, at the same conditions, $79.99 UNLIMITED everything.
So, after bragging of Zer01 unique proprietary technology for months, and of it backbone ownership and its billions of virtual capitalization, they say they can turn around and find another company with the SAME product ? I don't think so.
Oh, and they tell their associates not to worry, their checks are in the mail; as long you keep paying your $49.99 every month, you'll receive $1 for every chump you signed and who keeps paying $49.99 for nothing at all.
Derek, can you tell us about the technological gotchas in using VOIP to carry cell phone voice ?
0) Let's assume Ze01 has a carrier, and we'll have to assume further that this carrier charge them peanuts for unlimited use of their cell phone towers. Yes, admittedly this is quite unrealistic.
1) Is there any point in converting voice to "VOIP" ? All voice signal is carried as digital packets already for all current cell phones.
2) Won't the VOIP trick degrade sound quality ? With IP packets, there no guarantee all packets arrive on time and in the right order, yes ?
3) How does the cell phone process the VOIP conversion, is this done at the hardware level, or packet-per-packet by a JAVA routine ? If so, running that much JAVA code in real time may really use up battery life, IMHO.
4) Where does the VOIP goes ? Regular phones cannot receive VOIP as such, so there must be one or several servers to convert it back to regular voice telephone signal. Does Zero01 have one single datacenter to decode the expected millions of VOIP streams, or one in each US region ?
5) Zer01 has alluded several times to its technical team: how many enginers have they, where is their lab located, and what's the name of Zer01 CTO ?
The longest running soap opera...
I disagree.
The SCO v IBM case is still ongoing, with 5 new filings last week.
SCO no longer exists, but the case still goes on. And on. And on. And ...
I sincerely hope Randazza gets indicted and convicted
...And then, use the precedent to send the Koch Brothers, Exxon, AT&T and a thousand other corporations and lobbyists in jail where they belong (unlike Marc).
Prenda Law offices are for sale ?
square footage at address, city; property type; tenant; procuring agent; owner; listing agent; deal date (occupancy/effective date)
790sf at 591 Redwood Hwy., #2145, Mill Valley; office; Prenda Law; Michael Golden of CT; na; Brian Foster of CT; Dec. 15
This reminds me of the ZER01 affair
I see some parrallels with the ZER01 affair.
-ZER01 was supposed to offer mobile internet at half the price the carriers then charged
-ZER01 was a sensation at 2009 CES (they won an award)
-ZER01 was making a lot of technically unsound claims
-ZER01 CEO's resume was pure fantasy, and contained outrageous claims of inventions.
ZER01 didn't sue the journalist that broke the story. The CEO claimed he would prove all his critics wrong, but the product never launched.
BSD is Public Domain!
In the The 1994 USL-Regents of UCal Settlement Agreement (which has been made public due to the effirts of a Groklaw reader), AT&T and the Regents agree that the code at issue is Public Domain:
""e. Without waiving any of its proprietary rights therein, USL agrees that UNIX Derived Files listed in Exhibit B, or any material therein, may be freely distributed by the University and may be freely reproduced and redistributed by others without payment of any royalties or fees and without execution of any license agreement with USL and/or the University, provided such files or portions thereof include, in text form, a USL Copyright Notice and the same list of restrictions on use and redistribution of the software presently contained in the Net2 version of the file."
see http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041126130302760
They're selling Unixware and Openserver
What SCO is selling are the legacy OSes Unixware and Openserver.
Those OSes cannot run on modern computers, they need to be run with a virtualization tool (sold extra) that makes the OS think it's running on a 1990-era CPU.
SCO has not gained any new customers since 2003, and they have lost most of their legacy users since then. They have raised their prices several times since, and never turned up a profit. SCOXQ.pk current market cap is $1.75M
So, someone that buys UnixWare+OpenServer + the 7 remaining tech people, gets a marginal product that's a proven money-loser, that loses 20% of its few remaining customers every year.
First Santa Cruz and later Caldera (The SCO Group) have attempted to produce a 64-bits version of UnixWare for the last 15 years, and have failed miserably.
If anyone wants its own 64-bit OS that badly, they'd be better off starting with BSD that cost nothing and is public domain code.
The first $2M of the sale proceeds will go to an investors group headed by Ralph Yarro, which has superpriority over any creditor.
Re: Re: Hop-On Inc.
Yes, it is the very same Hop-On (HPNN.pk).
During the mid-2000s, Hop-On had a very marginal operation, selling disposable phones in the Middle-East. Just imagine.
Hop-On is 3+ years delinquent in its SEC filings, which means the SEC can pull the plug on them anytime, just like what happened to Phantom Entertainment, née Infinium Labs.
Hop-On unaudited 2009 financials show no sales, no inventory, no revenues of any kind, $173K in expenses, heaps of payables and debts, including a bank overdraft. Any normanl company woulf have long declared bankruptcy and moved on.
Hop-On only know economic activity is emitting press releases. Every single press release raises the price of its sub-sub-sub penny stock. That's how the game is played in that "market". Being delinquent in their filings, HPNN is not allowed to emit billions of new shares anymore, small mercies.
In its latest paid-for press releases, Hop-On was considering the acquisition of a VOIP company...
And then, there is their partnership with USAcig to peddle propylene-glycol+nicotine jelly cartridges based "Electric Cigarettes" ...
Hop-On Inc.
In one of the many twists of the ZER01 tale, another truly putrid company, Hop-On Inc, has announced its partnership with Global Verge to sell nicotine delivery devices, "Electric Cigarettes". So far, Global Verge has not acknowledged this "partnership".
Another former ZER01 partner, Pervasip Inc, has launched its own $69 VOIP service for the Nokia N900 Maemo. So far, no known sales.
Global Verge also sells the "Golden Eggs™", a pair of brass balls that purify tap water or bottled water...
Re: Re: SCO was a real company
No point. SCO, after 3 years of bankruptcy, and losing money all the while, is in sad, sad shape.
The Delaware judge had the opportunity to put it out of its misery, but instead he named a Trusted, who put the company even more in the red, and now vows to keep the litigation going.
It is hard to get a headcount of SCO-DIP; maybe 20 peoples.
The hotel costs and other costs for the 3-weeks trial must run up to $200K, a tidy sum for a company that is dead flat broke.
SCO was a real company
Reason2, SCO used to be a real company, called Caldera.
They had one of the most successful IPO ever (as a Linux company), back in the dotcom era. Their main product was Caldera Linux.
Their moneymaker (moneyloser, since SCO has never posted a profit) is SCO UnixWare and SCO Openserver, two legacy OSes that cannot compete either with Windows (any version) or Linux.
They announced with great fanfare that they would become a player in the Mobile arena, but it took them 3 years to launch a product for the iPhone, FC MobileLife, $4.99 ranked #337 in Productivity apps.
They have been in bankruptcy for the past 3 years. After 2.5 years the Delaware judge named a Trustee, who have worked hard to keep the Litigation alive, by racking up $600K of past-due payable (by not paying the bankruptcy lawyers).
Currently they are seeking approval for an asset sale, their whole Mobile Division, including 12 servers and several software product, to their former CEO, for ... $35,000 (the sale cost more than that to set up).
The have announced another upcoming asset sale, a JAVA virtual machine patent (probably invalid due to prior art and obviousness), for $100K...
They have recently obtained a $2M loan from their main shareholder, which gives him superpriority over any other creditors, and first dibs on the IP that SCO happens to own.
The scam.org thread got DELETED.
The latest news I saw, Verge was telling its associates not to worry about Zer01 severing its relationship with Buzzirk and Verge, they would have ANOTHER phone peddler lined up real soon now, in a matter of days, at the same conditions, $79.99 UNLIMITED everything.
So, after bragging of Zer01 unique proprietary technology for months, and of it backbone ownership and its billions of virtual capitalization, they say they can turn around and find another company with the SAME product ? I don't think so.
Oh, and they tell their associates not to worry, their checks are in the mail; as long you keep paying your $49.99 every month, you'll receive $1 for every chump you signed and who keeps paying $49.99 for nothing at all.
No phones to peddle.
VOIP feasability ?
Derek, can you tell us about the technological gotchas in using VOIP to carry cell phone voice ?
0) Let's assume Ze01 has a carrier, and we'll have to assume further that this carrier charge them peanuts for unlimited use of their cell phone towers. Yes, admittedly this is quite unrealistic.
1) Is there any point in converting voice to "VOIP" ? All voice signal is carried as digital packets already for all current cell phones.
2) Won't the VOIP trick degrade sound quality ? With IP packets, there no guarantee all packets arrive on time and in the right order, yes ?
3) How does the cell phone process the VOIP conversion, is this done at the hardware level, or packet-per-packet by a JAVA routine ? If so, running that much JAVA code in real time may really use up battery life, IMHO.
4) Where does the VOIP goes ? Regular phones cannot receive VOIP as such, so there must be one or several servers to convert it back to regular voice telephone signal. Does Zero01 have one single datacenter to decode the expected millions of VOIP streams, or one in each US region ?
5) Zer01 has alluded several times to its technical team: how many enginers have they, where is their lab located, and what's the name of Zer01 CTO ?
Re: Latest Global Verge News!
"Pay checks are being sent out and the phones are coming soon."
Both statements turned out to be lies.