After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $14.5M

Re:After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $... by marcodiego on Saturday August 28, 2021 @11:45AM (#28338960)

Who will pay? Who will get the money?

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Re:After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $... by jepler on Saturday August 28, 2021 @11:50AM (#28339009)

"The Estates" are the corpse of SCO, and "The Trustee" is the court-appointed trustee for The Estates. So, it would seem that IBM is going to pay $14 million to the corpse of SCO.

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Re:After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $... by phire on Saturday August 28, 2021 @03:18PM (#28340669)

And I wouldn't be surprised if the corpse of SCO will pay all of it to their lawyers.

Though there is a slim chance there will be some left over, and will go to the shareholders.

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Re:After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $... by axiolite on Saturday August 28, 2021 @05:36PM (#28341736)

> And I wouldn't be surprised if the corpse of SCO will pay all of it to their lawyers.

That's not how it's supposed to work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693487

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Re:After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $... by peepohpoopah on Saturday August 28, 2021 @11:50AM (#28338999)

The lawyers will get the money.

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Re:After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $... by mixmastamyk on Saturday August 28, 2021 @03:34PM (#28340802)

And what are they paying for? Case was always described as meritless.

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Re:After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $... by ghaff on Saturday August 28, 2021 @05:01PM (#28341456)

IANAL but I assume to close the books and be able to stop paying their own lawyers on anything related to the case, however relatively minor--and perhaps to mitigate any future risk, however minor.

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Re:After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $... by mixmastamyk on Saturday August 28, 2021 @06:27PM (#28342068)

Thanks, wonder why there was no final ruling yet.

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Re:After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $... by ghaff on Saturday August 28, 2021 @07:15PM (#28342414)

Legal stuff takes a lot of time.

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