On 2007-01-20, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> SCO faces new setback in IBM case
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>| Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells of the U.S. District Court in Utah denied
>| SCO's motion asking for a finding that IBM flushed code that would
>| have proved SCO IBM injected Unix programming into the Linux OS,
>| according to Groklaw.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| The Linux tussle, which also involves Novell, cost SCO $12.3m during
>| its fiscal 2006, a sum that CEO Darl McBride said would likely fall
>| this year....
Yeah. Once they go completely out of business they won't spend another
dime (as a company) on the legal bills. The individuals might still be
hauled into court, but the company will stop bleeding finally.
>|.... Coupled with annual revenue that fell 19 percent on weakness of
>| its Unix business, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy, Novell
>| alleged in a recent filing.
>|
>| Novell claims it is owed $26m in licensing fees and that it
>| will be irreparably harmed if SCO is allowed to fade to black
>| without paying.
> `----
If they do get it, it's probably going out the back door to MS anyway.
Novell is still "irreparably harmed" even with the influx.
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