That being so, I got myself a PACER account and began pulling down the filings each weeknight and giving a brief rundown on the docket action on IV and copied to Y. But there were long stretches where there was no news, and I wanted to reassure my audience that the dockets were being looked at even if there was nothing new in them. But it gets pretty dull to say "no news tonight" over and over again.

Now over on Y before Yahoo lost its corporate mind, we were a large collection of strange characters. Occasional verse and poetry popped up, so when I ran into long stretches of no news it occurred to me to spend a couple minutes composing some throwaway doggerel to amuse.

But over time it's become a fair body of work. What scares me most is that I've gotten noticably better at it. Still, IMO, it's nothing grand, but some have found it quite amusing. Of course, as I've noted it's all dreadfully ephemeral and topical. A few years from now SCOX will be a footnote in the history books (maybe a chapter - on how not to do it - in a few law books) and the weekly ups and downs referenced by these will be obscure if not completely opaque. Still, here for your amusement...
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It started in total innocence with no title, 2007-04-27:

No news tonight
but tomorrow there might.

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2007-04-30

Nothing happening between them,
have to get our kicks from IBM.

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2007-05-01

Nothing from IBM
and naught from Novell,
I guess you'll just have to suffer
from more stupid doggerel.

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The metaphor of watching a melodrama or really bad movie litters our discussions on the boards.

2007-05-02

Nothing in Novell, not a word did they say,
so save up the popcorn for some other day.

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Historians of the case take note that shill "backinfullforce" on the Y board was a figure of awed derision.

2007-05-03

Nothing by nothing new in these cases,
if I didn't have rum, I'd join the biff chases.

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2007-05-04

Once again, sadly, from Novell nothing new,
What little there is comes from Big Blue.

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2007-05-07

No rulings, no motions, no memoranda, nothing new
You're in a really bad way if this entertains you.

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Slowly the titles I put in the subject lines evolved into works more appropos of the poem than any substance. After all the substance was, more often than not, a recitation of the docket number entries. If there was any substance, it would usually be part of the poem's theme anyway. But early on there was little consistancy.

Getting Moldy 2007-05-08

Nothing new in SCO vs. Novell of late,
and in IBM just more hurry up and wait.

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2007-05-09

Through PACER again I've looked and I've slaved
but again IBM and SCO have done nothing new.
It's a very good thing that this evening I've saved
Some very important drinking to do.

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2007-05-10

Novell does nothing to break the snoring
while IBM continues boring.

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2007-05-11

Nothing today in SCO v Novell in PACER that I see,
but perhaps clerk has just gotten the liquor before me.

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2007-05-14

Too often of late the judges and lawyers have been all too mum,
So while I have the chance, I'll try some more rum.

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2007-05-16

In Novell and IBM fate has given SCO time
to gag for a while and reswallow their chyme.

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Jeff Merkey is/was also a nemesis of the anti-SCOX crowd, and a more serious one than biff as he actually filed suit against a few people on the boards, but after observing a while I concluded that he is a gent who parts his hair from the inside and brushes his teeth through his ears. But he has a faithful following of antagonists, whom after a while I came to feel needed their CPU's reseated nearly as badly as he.

2007-05-17

On PACER for IBM and Novell there is no news
But over on Y there's a Merkey of loose screws.

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2007-05-18

Not a glimmer of news in PACER again,
but next week some fun will surely begin.
Some memos are due next Friday we know,
So lets wait to see Boise put on a show!

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2007-05-19 Off Doing Yard Work

Late Friday and Saturday IBM's done nothin new
Perhaps on the weekend they've real things to do.

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(This is bad. They get better, promise!)

2007-05-21

Nothing new from IBM in PACER perchance
but by Friday we see Boise's dance.

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2007-05-22

Nothing tonight found new in PACER,
Later less work for Kimball's eraser!

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2007-05-23

Those waiting with baited breath will pass out after turning blue,
For once again in the IBM and Novell dockets there is nothing new.

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2007-05-24

Again in this case on PACER silence reigns
more time for SCOX to anticipate their pains.

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2007-05-30

While Novell is alive with haste and bustle
In IBM there is silence, nary a rustle.

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(My sense of meter is getting better, if not my rhyme ;-)

2007-05-31

In PACER again today the IBM case idly sits
While for Novell in court SCOX twitters and ... argues.

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2007-06-01

Nothing new for IBM tonight
SCO has the weekend to consider its plight.

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2007-06-04

The IBM case is out to lunch
no new dockets for quite some time,
But in Novell we're near the crunch
Laid bare in court SCO's eau d' slime.

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2007-06-05 Silence Must Be Golden

There's nothing new on PACER tonight
to account for this stock's dizzying flight.
The stock rockets up when news is dearth
but truth will soon bring it back to earth

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2007-06-06 Silence of the Scams

No news again on PACER this day
So up in the air the stock gets to stay
But like all smelly crap
It'll come down with a thwap
But when only Kimball can say.

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By now several motions were before Judge Kimball, fully briefed and heard. As their time "under advisement" dragged on my patience wore thin.

2007-06-07 Waiting for Godot

News again on PACER is void,
I'm really starting to get quite annoyed.
Sitting around and drumming our fingers
waiting for Kimball to slay these bellringers.

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The characterization of IBM's lawyers as the Nazgul (from Lord of the Rings should you be so ignorant), nightmarish shadows of men with infinite patience and totally lacking mercy is one I and others use incessantly to taunt SCOX. It should be obvious that we believe SCOX deserving the attentions of such.

2007-06-08 Dark

Now news in PACER for IBM tonight
We look to the courthouse and hope for a light
That Kimball is working
And SCO will be jerking
In nightmares of the Nazgul's delight

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2007-06-11 (IBM) Still Slackin'

In SCO v IBM the silence still thunders
while in Novell SCO continues its blunders.

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As I had long before predicted, the Yahoo SCOX stock board had become a "garbage dump", where discussion had long given way to personal prats and tit for tat insults. But many of us on IV SCOX, where reasonable discourse remained in style, admitted to sometimes dropping by Y to express our inner child (desparately in need of attentions of a leather belt).

2007-06-12 (Dockets) Empty as a Troll's Soul

In the courts again cold are the coals,
but on Yahoo I had fun chasing the trolls.
They're dumb, and they're ugly, and they're brutal 'tis true
But if you're better than they are you just need to say 'Boo!'

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This isn't poetry. But in my foray into troll land over on Y I seem to have gotten under the skin of one of the trolls. In half sneering desparation he asked "Why are you here?" (Lorien's question from B5, though I'm not sure he ever noticed). This was my quite serious response. To date is has the highest recommendation of any of my posts on IV. It explains why many of us are so hostile to SCOX. Here is as good a place to preserve that understanding as any.

2007-06-12 Why We're Here

IR Y SCOX 425698

My name is Terrence W. Zellers, and my address and phone number can be found by anyone mildly technically aware who has three brain cells he can fire in unison. "ColonelZen" is the one and only handle I have ever used on this and related boards.

Now most of us freely admit that we're here for the entertainment - watch the train wreck that is SCOX and snack on popcorn, swill booze and laugh with each other while stepping over the dismembered bodies. This is in good taste as we know that SCOX deserves it. Many of us were there for various parts of Unix and computing history. We knew from very early on that there was no BS more smelly and less nutrient rich than what McBride and the others were spreading.

But there is a moral component as well.

Many of us OWE the creators of Linux. And F/OSS generally.

Individually there isn't much we can do about SCOX. But there is one thing each and every one of us who owes a debt and feels an obligation to the community can do.

We can bear witness.

That's what it is all about. We can witness the injustice upon Linux that SCOX has done and we can witness whatever justice is visited upon SCOX in consequence.

One who understands what it means - the responsibility of - "to bear witness" cannot stand mute in the face of a lie.

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2007-06-13

Nothing new in Novell I gather
But IBM has SCOX all in a lather!

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2007-06-14 TANJ ... or Filings

Happiness for SCOX as the dockets are bare,
Soon enough horror will find them there.

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The "Who is PJ" was always an amusing subplot to this story.

2007-06-15 The Smell of Silence

The Novell case stands idle this day
But SCO does end a single affray:
Our butts, we admit,
After taking a shit,
We could not find on a bidet

So now we must respectfully say,
That moot is our quest to depose PJ.
Its over we think
but don't flush that sink!
Our heads are still stuck in the way.

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2007-06-18 There Ain't No Justice

The news from PACER is no news again
And one more day SCOX gets a free ride.
The judge should remember that hoary refrain
that justice delayed is justice denied.

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2007-06-20 Familiar Silence

No new filings today, no screwups by SCO
Just the silence that too well we know.

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2007-06-21 No Jam Today

The dockets again tell no tales,
One more day that justice fails.

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2007-06-22 Still No Hammer

No filings or orders on the dockets tonight.
It seems that Judge Kimball has mislaid his hammer.
In Utah nobody cares if its wrong or its right,
The good life awaits the white collar scammer.

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2007-06-25 Waiting for a Shine

If in months I did not write
What ought be done in a fortnight
I'd quick be out of a job.
With nothing in the dockets tonight
The scammers laugh with delight,
While Kimball polishes his ... hammer.

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2007-06-26 Three Martinis and Brandy on the Side

Nothing in the dockets for the SCO bunch,
Justice again has gone out to lunch.

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2007-06-27 What Time is It?

I wish I did not need to write this rhyme
while the judge is clocking Miller time.
In the dockets another day did quietly pass
While justice in Utah sits on its ... paperwork.

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2007-06-28 The Party Continues ...

The boys of SCOX are happy and gay
and should send the judge a case of gin.
The scam goes on for another day
'cause there's nothing in the dockets again.

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2007-06-29

Boise's girls are good at the game,
Another week they've beaten the court.
For the dockets today look just the same
And justice again has come up short.

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"recs" or recommendations are somewhat of a joke - more on the old Y board than on IV, as there are so many ways to game them. More in fun than anything else we sometimes accuse the author of a particularly good post of "rec whoring". AllParadox is a retired attorney who sometimes posts and it is an understatement to say that his contributions are highly valued ... and of course rec'd in accordance.

2007-06-30 Lament of the Poetic Rec-Ho

I see by the recs people like my rhyme.
On its page it has the most!
Then later I check it one more time
but AllParadox has made a post.

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2007-07-02 Hoping for Firecrackers

The dockets are empty and dry
As we wait for the fourth of July
May fireworks and rockets
light up the dockets
While we party and watch SCOX die.

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2007-07-03 (IBM) Still on Vacation

IBM's docket looks the same way
But tomorrow is Independence day.
So booze we will swill
and cook out on the grill
Someday the Nazgul will feast on their prey.

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monsieurbobo did a Nantucket limerick in response. I was inspired...

2007-07-03

The Nazgul will cook up a feast
with plenty for each wraith and beast,
With Yarro well done,
And McBride in a bun,
And their lawyers fermenting in yeast.

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From an off topic discussion on the technology of ancient computers.

2007-07-03 Chips with That (originally untitled)

if electron states and laser pits
only leave your wits in fits,
and magnetic domains give you a chill,
for excitement try a mercury spill.
But if gigabits a second is more your speed
Then modern chips are what you need.

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2007-07-05 Wake the Judge

It seems that Judge Kimball is still deeply snoring,
Once again the dockets today are empty and boring.
But soon the Nazgul will nudge
and roar to awaken the Judge,
And he will have to give SCOX their well deserved coring.

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Inymical responded with haiku. Of course I'm too vain not to respond in kind.

200-07-05 Mad Metaphors (originally untitled)

Metaphors are bad
Not allowed in haiku
An art for the mad.

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2007-07-06 Keeping the Wraiths Sleek and Hungry

Though the dockets are bare and Kimball still sleeping
Already you can hear the sound of SCOX weeping.
Arrogant and bold with their lies and their deals,
Now their fate sealed in law as unhappy meals.
The liver of Yarro and the ass of McBride,
The Feast of the Nazgul will not be denied.

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2007-07-09 The Crime of Rhyme

The excitement today is this silly rhyme
There's no justice in sight for SCOX's vile crime.
The Dockets today are what we've come to expect
From a judge who's hard working to lose our respect

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Occasionally there is a serious subtext ...

2007-07-10 No Justice Today

The docket's the same as long it has been,
IBM's justice has nowhere lately been seen.
If thus for them, rich, righteous, and great,
Then what of us allotted a lesser estate?

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2007-07-11 Fast as Dry Mud

The schedule says Novell will go fast
Though IBM's dockets are stuck in the past.
If you believe the Novell schedule's tale
I have some real estate in Florida for sale.

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2007-07-12 Work to Do!

Sorry I'm late with this report today
But sometimes I have real work to do.
Were I to meet Judge Kimball I'd say
From the empty dockets you do too!

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2007-07-13 Fooling Around

The judge in Novell did not rule
though SCOX's case is a bucket of drool.
Each day that goes by
Is a win for SCOX's lie
And I wonder if he's a tool or a fool.

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2007-07-16 Promises

Like the promise of justice by law and court
This docket lies hollow without retort.

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I've mentioned before that "backinfullforce" was a "legendary" supporter of SCOX ... well not so much a supporter of SCOX as defender of their impossible assertions and "logic". This weekend - supposedly due to having lost his cool and posted a gross defamation - his account was nuked by Yahoo. By interesting coincidence I had just pointed out that the interests of one Steve Sabbath would closely match the history and personal interest of biff's elsewise anonymous character. In any event, Y's pulling the plug on "backinfullforce" is a significant milestone in the SCO history:

2007-07-16 Requiem for Backinfullforce

A liar lies under any name
For only by lie could he claim pride.
The truth always mocked him in his shame,
And its light never left him a place to hide.
Time after time he'd play the same game
But truth always beat him, whatever he tried.
By the end he was shriveled, flaccid and lame
And his force could not bring a blush to McBride.

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2007-07-17 In the Name of Hope

Nothing is new
Tis sadly true.
To hope again
Tomorrow's sin.

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2007-07-18 The Speed of Right

The time is near to see some action
But PACER gives no satisfaction
Listen up, Judge, we need to know
Whether or not you are slow as SCOX
Or whether you'll serve justice at last
Or do nothing more, not even half fast.

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2007-07-19 Boredom Makes Me Grumpy

Another day has come and gone
And a look at PACER inspires a yawn.
I wish Judge Kimball would get off his ass
And give me reason not to be so crass.

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For an historic anniversary.

2007-07-20 Justice by the Moon

Another week and the dockets are covered with dust
Another failure to add to our government disgust
We went to the moon,
But won't go back soon,
And maybe by then SCOX will get what is just.

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2007-07-23 Cold Justice

Kimball's loud snoring still rings through the court,
While SCOX gets a way with it's fabulous tort.
Empty dockets while their stock climbs is really not nice,
Justice would be very well served with a bucket of ice.

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2007-07-24 Impolitely Silent

A judge should judge to earn his pay
And finally put this scam away
But with no PACER news
I've impertinent views
About leaving justice for another day.

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2007-07-25 The Price of Sleep

The wheels of justice so slowly they creep
But they don't turn at all when the judge is asleep.
Each day he does nothing and I wonder more,
Why this man is paid to continue to snore.

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2007-07-26 Clowning Around

In PACER again there's not taste
That the judge in this has any haste
To shut these blackguard harlequins down
Before it's he who looks like a clown.

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2007-07-27 Justice, American Style

Learn to do business in the great US of A
Here's how its done the American way.
We lie cheat and steal and slander your name,
And we'll sue you in court with no valid claim.
The court will do nothing to prove that you're right
For five years on his ass a judge can sit tight.

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2007-07-30 Time Will Tell

Nothing new in the docket for Novell
but tomorrows tale only time will tell.

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2007-07-31 Summer Deserts

It appears that Judge Kimball is out on vacation
And thus SCOX enjoys another week of elation.
But when he returns from enjoying his summer
SCOX had best be prepared for a well deserved bummer.

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tubby had been on Y as tubbytuba and was infamous for a while for posting limericks on a near daily basis. Over time that died out but of course was part of the "inspiration" for my efforts. He suffered a relapse ejaculating "Curse you, Zen" before expostulating.
My limericks are poor but I seem to do better at couplets...

2007-07-31 Diseased Poetry (originally untitled)

Of all the diseases a man can acquire
Of those just annoying it's the last I'd desire.

Looking for beat and rhyme in these words
is nearly as useful as playing with turds.

Regular rhyme on this board came from you first
I'm just the most recent fool to be cursed.

So if your old ailment to you has come back,
Try drowning your shame in a bottle of Jack.

It won't cure the illness, of that I'm aware
But at least for a while you'll no longer care.

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As August began we knew something had to break soon. Kimball's court schedule for the Novell case required that there be some resolution to some of the outstanding issues before the cases could properly proceed to trial.

2007-08-01 Feel the Burn

Of news of SCOX in PACER is none
While Kimball takes some time in the sun.
I wonder who, when he finally returns
will more deeply feel their burns.

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2007-08-02 No Worries, Judge

The Nazgul wait in anger
Building deep but patient fury.
A judge's misplaced langour
Sharpens their rage, not their worry.

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2007-08-03 World Class

It appears the judge intends to do not a lot
To give the locals their best possible shot
But this ain't just Utah, and not just for fun,
A world of hurt happens before the Nazgul are done.

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2007-08-06 Empty Lies

IBM's docket is empty,
No big surprise,
The judge doesn't care,
About Darl's many lies.

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2007-08-07 And the Beat Goes On ...

The court may favor the local scum,
Though unjustly they tried to sue,
But IBM beats on a global drum
And the truth will see them through.

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2007-07-08 Powerful Disgust

The judge will not pronunce the truth of SCOX's shame
And IBM's dockets lie empty just gathering dust.
In Utah this may be how the powerful play their game
But the rest of the world watches with growing disgust.

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2007-07-09 The Whole World is Laughing

The judge in this case, it seems to me,
is too friendly toward the local folk.
He doesn't notice that the world will see
That the US courts are now a joke.

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On August 10th Kimball vindicated himself and likewise the positions us anti-SCOXites had been holding for four long, wearying tiresome years, by ruling on the PSJ's almost entirely in Novell's favor. I issued a gleeful apologies for my aspersions and innuendoes in these poems on the IV board, but in retrospect I still reconsider them as valid critiques of the justice system. If it takes four years for rich and powerful corporations to get some measure of justice (and despite the PSJ's it ain't over yet, Oct 6th) out of the courts in the face of an outrageous and totally unfounded lawsuit, then "what of us of lesser estate?"

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2007-08-13 Their Pain is Our Pleasure

I love the sound of the bastards screaming
In the agony of last Fridays reaming.
The dockets have returned to being empty again
That we may longer savor the glow of SCOX's pain.

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2007-08-14 The Calm After the Storm

The dockets are empty in PACER tonight
And I'm enjoying the peaceful calm.
The world of Linux is now all right
While SCOX whimpers reeking of anal balm.

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Microsoft provided part of the funding for the SCOX lawsuits. And it was once famously reported that at one time Microsoft president Steve Balmer lost his temper and threw a chair.

2007-08-15 Beware the Chair

The dockets are empty again,
but I'll not complain.

The end is in sight
For this miserable blight.

It's too much to hope
That they'll get a rope,

But chances are fair
They'll at least rate a chair.

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2007-08-16 Passed the Past

No news on this day that has passed
But a day closer 'til finally at last
The truth SCOX must face
And stand in disgrace
For the lies they have told in the past.

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2007-08-17 Idyl Wile

The dockets sit empty as they've been for a while,
Not much will happen until after Novell's trial.

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2007-08-20 The Pain in the Rain Falls Mostly on the Vain

No news tonight on this miserable night of rain
Still I manage to smile when I think of SCOX's pain.

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2007-08-21 Why Try

There's nothing new in PACER tonight
While SCOX mourns their hopeless plight.
I wonder if Ralph or Darl feels
There's any chance in filing appeals.
No doubt they'd like to give it a try,
But Boise knows the well is dry.

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2007-08-24 Waiting the Fire

There's nothing new in the IBM dockets of late,
But with Novell on fire we won't mind the wait.

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2007-08-27 Timeless

No news I see and I can't make a rhyme,
I'm just too busy and don't have the time.

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2007-08-28 Damp

SCOX should be worried
And continue to fret
There's no news tonight
But their case is all wet.

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Here I display my awesome powers of prognostication ... IBM filed a memo the next night. As they were ordered to do by the court.

2007-08-29 Leftovers

IBM's dockets show nothing still,
and very likely never will.
Novell alone SCOX's fate will seal,
Darl and Ralph will be the Nazgul's meal.

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It's far from certain, but some of our board members think that some of Darl's remarks, made as President of SCO and for which he is responsible as such, could well have put him on the wrong side of the law. I cynically suggest that any prosecution will be dependent more on politics than anything else. Personally I do think that from purely an ethics and justice standpoint McBride's willful misrepresentation of facts and willful intent to damage others is worthy of criminal punishment. He (and his boss Ralph Yarro who if less prominent is morally equally responsible) has had five years drawing a munificent salary plus bonuses and perks for running an enterprise with its primary policy being libel and extortion; an equal time in proportionately unpleasant circumstances is only justice - proper punishment demands more.

2007-08-30 Where to Find Happiness

Even though there is no IBM news tonight
Today's brought cause for joy and delight.
It seems that Darl's running his mouth again,
And Bubba whistles happily in the Federal Pen.

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IBM, throughout this has done the smart thing for the participant in a lawsuit. They kept their corporate mouth shut in public and said what needed to be said in court. It was a wonderment that an IBM rep this day said a very few guarded words about being pleased with Judge Kimballs ruling the prior month.

2007-09-04 IBM Speaks

At long last IBM has finally spoken,
Though their words could easily be guessed.
Kimball's ruling SCOX's case has broken
And SCOX themselves are merely a pest.

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2007-09-05 Sitting Vigil

IBM sits silent, quiet and reserved
Waiting for a death richly deserved.
SCOX worked hard at an evil plot
But the reaper's scythe is what they got.

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Even on the relatively sedate IV SCOX board we sometimes find ourselves in various spats, usually relating to politics. One of our more respected members, El Corton, had announced that he'd had enough and was withdrawing.

2007-09-06 The Cost of Battle

No news from IBM's dockets tonight
So now's its time to sit and reflect,
That our passion is what makes us fight
But even for good some will object.

Our love of right is what makes us strong
And makes us join the raucous fray.
But there are casualties in fighting wrong
Our rowdiness has driven El Corton away.

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Something of a counterpoint as our board etiquette was basically that politics and meta-discussion were OK on the weekends but bad manners during the week or when there was real news. This week there were still low intensity conflicts going on from the previous weekend's political rows. This was spotlighted as orders came down from the court in the Novell case denying SCOX's "second bite of the apple" - basically motions to the court to change its mind or to allow an immediate appeal.

2007-09-07 What Are We Talking About

IBM's dockets have been quiet all week
but theres always politics about which to squeak!

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2007-09-10 The Wonder of the Bones

I wonder as the days each go wandering past
If the Nazgul will get their chance at last,
To render SCO's living flesh and blood still hot
Or only gnaw on broken bones before they rot.

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2007-09-11 Lustrous for Fruit

Tis a pity the Nazgul now have nothing to do
SCO will be dead ere it they can hew.
But Darl and Ralph wait like fruit on the vine
So they polish their blades to a lustrous shine.

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By way of idle amusement the board, even back in Y days had made a sport of guessing the next day's stock numbers. Over time a WAG came to mean any guess, entered as one would a wager. I don't know if it was exclusive to the anti-scox boards but evidently IV saw this as an interesting community building excercise and built it right into their message board software.

2007-09-12 Cigarette WAG

I wonder what IBM did this day so sunny?
They certainly filed nothing with the court.
Did they worry about owing SCO money?
Or wag the cigarrettes for Darl's sport?

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Even within the anti-SCOX community there are rather divergent views about PJ and Groklaw. At one time there were ongoing bitter and deeply (and with petulant childishness on both sides) battles fought over such matters for more than a year. By now though and for more than two years, all who remained pretty much understood each other's positions to such an extent that it was immaterial anymore. On this particular day the JEM report raised some questions about what is Groklaw's "rightful" place matters of Tech reporting. Some of us wryly observe that he is a little late to the party.

2007-09-13 The War Bore

From IBM there's nothing more,
Still the day is not a bore,
For though there's little from the court
There's Grokwar in the JEM Report.

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SCO v Novell's trial on the remaining issues was scheduled to start on Monday, September 17th. On Friday, the 14th, SCOX (SCO's stock symbol) declared chapter 11 (reorganization) bankruptcy. This had long been forseen as part of the end-game. The last roll of the dice to keep the game going as long as possible.

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2007-09-17 Dream Riders

Before the debtors court did SCO come
with an ill mannered band of lawyer scum.
A desparate gambit to save their schemes
But five MoFos ride in to tramp their dreams.
Now none can say what tomorrow brings
But ill fate will claim all evil things.

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2007-09-18 Winning Fools

Today before the debtors court SCO came
Winning three weeks more to suffer their shame.
But this judge knows scammers, he is no fool,
He invited the MoFos to ask for Kimball to rule.

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Dan Lyons was one of a handful of Tech "Journalists" who, over the years, had been more accepting of SCOX's varied and sundry "stories" than those of us more critically inclined could find palatable. (Rob Enderle, Maureen OGara and Laura Didio round out the list). On the 19th Lyons published a "mea culpa" admitting that he had been lied too and was far too accepting of SCOX's representations.

The title is a little bland. I was aiming for sardonic and missed.

2007-09-19 Today in the News ...

Tonight Dan Lyons dines on carrion birds
His analysis was bested by T-shirted nerds.
Like those who thought SCO was the road to riches
Had their money taken by lying sons of bitches.

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Tibbets, SCOX's in house legal counsel got a big bonus and big raise ... dated the very day before the bankruptcy filing.

2007-09-20 The Thunder of Plunder

Ryan Tibbets has made quite a blunder
in divvying up the SCO plunder
When the judge looks
At the state of SCO's books
AllParadox expects there to be thunder.

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2007-09-21 Administrative Assurance

When the judge says the case is adminstratively closed
He means that the courts now have SCOX totally hosed.
SCOX is now bankrupt spiralling low in the bowl
But there's still business to do before it passes the hole.

There's no chance that Kimball won't get his shot
To deal with Boise and his vile lot!
Judges do justice, nicely measured and weighed,
So Gross will give Kimball the Novell case unstayed.

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Close on the heels of Dan Lyons tearful renunciation, Rob Enderle tries his own tug at the heartstrings. However rather than admitting he was, and allowed himself to be, misled Enderle places the "blame" squarely on SCOX's victims who refused to be victimized - the Linux supporters.

2007-09-24 Enderle's Writeousness

'Tis not my fault that some people can't see
that I was right to be wrong and they wrong to be right.
For if what I write wrong makes you be mean to me
I'll write more rightly wrong to better prove what I write.

I'll write for the wrong when its the wrong that I trust
And I trust them for liking the wrong that I write.
I'll write for the wrong because somebody must
Do the writing the wrong and wronging the right.

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2007-09-25 Permission Problems

It's strange to hear silence from the once brash and bold
Even McBride must now know that his hopes have gone cold.
As paupers in Debtor's Court even SCOX must now wait
On the patience of their betters to determine their fate.

There's no money they can spend nor any deals can they sign
Until the trustee looks it over and checks out each line.
The proud mouth of Darl is finally wrapped up and bound
He must ask other's permission before uttering a sound.

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2007-09-26 Speed Kill

Faster than lightning, the streak of a meteor, or superman on meth
The Debtor's Court speeds SCOX towards its well deserved death.
Ok, in truth SCOX's death is still coming way too slow
But compared to the civil courts its a fast and exciting show.

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2007-09-27 A Quiet Job

Linux is safe, there's nothing to fear
The end of SCOX is drawing near.
McBride can think about years in jail
While the Trustee has him sort the mail.

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Local mythology paints Maureen O'Gara as a lush - I have no real opinion save that her ongoing "respect" for SCOX hints of a certain impairment of intellectual facuties. And her relationship with SCOX is documented to be rather closer than one expects of an "objective" journalist. Just how close and deep those relationships, and the nature of her mental handicap, I do not really care to imagine - except of course for noble purposes of poetry and parody ...

2007-09-28 The Dog and this Lamb

Bert has taken it on the lamb
The ship is sinking beneath this scam.
Nazgul have been seen in the Debtor's court;
Ken Nielson's tenure is gonna be short.

The trustee will only let Darl watch sports
You need to be literate to write reports!
So the legal plan has been penned by MOG,
Enough gin and fairies might save this dog!

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Over the weekend I speculated (and I genuinely don't know how seriously to take it) that the real target audience for SCOX's outlandish public pronouncements - completely divorced from the grim reality of SCOX's legal and financial futures - was Darl and Ralph's wives. Elsewise boredom and resulted in sidebar discussions all over the map including varous fauna.

2007-10-01 The Gift of Reassurance

Darl tells Andrea he's just begun
When everyone knows he's nearly done.
Some silly women believe a man's lies
Long after others have gotten wise.

But thanks to Andrea for boredom broken,
The mouth of Ralph again has spoken.
Bears and cats we need not endure
While Darl has a wife to reassure.

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Details of SCOX's "plan" came out in the bankruptcy filings.

2007-10-02 Truth by the Numbers

Darl kept his mouth shut tightly today,
He knows we're looking at what the spreadsheets say.
All words are lies but numbers tell some truth
The scammer's arithmetic is decidedly uncouth.

The numbers tell us at least part of their plans
Techies and clerks will be out on their cans.
Originally: http://www.ip-wars.net/story/2007/10/6/222449/901 The executives get bonuses so they can remain
Until the last dollar is sucked down the drain.

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2007-10-03 Remember the Lies

The Nazgul wish that Darl remember
They have a date to him dismember.
Lest he think they've forgot his tort,
A new wraith sits in Debtors Court.

A great man brought to slaughter fools
The very one who wrote the rules.
Even in Debtors Court SCOX cannot hide
From fate deserved by the lies of McBride.

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The "Big One" was Novell's filing in the bankruptcy court to have SCO v Novell unstayed.

2007-10-04 The Big One and the Wee Little One

Ralph has left Darl all alone
To explain about the money blown.
And tell the courts why they see
That in the end there is no IP.

"To our utter destruction" the rake did cry -
The only words which were not a lie.
But he's been kind to leave Darl holding a bag,
Cause when Andrea leaves he'll have the MOG to shag.

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Ralph Yarro seems to have realized that there's no future in SCOX. For the past year or two he's been "persuing other interests", most noticably "fighting internet porn". Oddly enough, many of the laws he and his political cronies have been advocating would be particularly beneficial to companies in Utah with particular "technologies", and by strange coincidence those are companies in which Ralph has a financial interest. This has earned him a rather contrary nickname and we also wish Ralph to remember that there's a little bit of unfinished business regarding his tenure at SCOX.

2007-10-06 Naked Tail

Behind McBride Ralph tries to hide,
The problem is that he's much too wide.
For all his evil he's bound to pay
And the Nazgul will not forfeit their prey.

Twas his Canopy they severed first,
A loving stroke to engorge their thirst.
But when the Debtor's Court shears the corporate veil
Then naked will be the Porn King's tail.

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There you have it, my complete opus to date. Now as poetry a couple of them might be worth a nod or two. Most of them were amusing to write and are hopefully worth a chuckle in passing as read in context of their times.

Of course I KNOW that must of them, artisticly, are pure crap.

All I have to say by way of apology to my would be critics is:

STOP SCOX NOW OR I'LL DO IT SOME MORE! (eeahhh ha ha ha ...)

-- TWZ