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The Lawsuit Ain't Over Til the Fat Lady
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| Last week, the final judgment was issued in the SCO v. Novell lawsuit. No
| big surprise, Novell took the day, with SCO ordered to fork over around 3.5
| million dollars. This lead many to declare SCO dead, that truth and justice
| had won the day, and go dancing around the virtual streets of the Internet.
| Alas, the law is rarely that simple, and there's still a ton of legal
| proceedings alive and well that bear SCO's name. Even SCO v. Novell isn't
| over, since later in the week SCO filed notice of intent to appeal. With all
| that in mind, we thought it might be a good time to check in with the
| chronicler of all things SCO, Pamela Jones of Groklaw, and see just where
| things stand.
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http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/11/the-lawsuit-aint-over-til-the.html
Recent:
SCO's MORs for September in the Bankruptcy - The Subsidiaries
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| Am I going nuts or is SCO sending money to the foreign subsidiaries? Take a
| look.
|
| [...]
|
| Unless I am misreading this, SCO seems now to be sending more than that to
| SCO India alone. With SCO shrinking before our eyes, why are the subsidiaries
| needing more money now? I have no explanation.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081028101226230
The Day After & Motion to Intervene Denied as "Wholly Inappropriate" - updated
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| Remember when SCO began its media blitz? Stories everywhere. The world
| thought it was exciting to imagine Linux on the ropes. Now, when SCO is told
| it behaved improperly and must pay millions, only a few even note it. No one
| cares about SCO in failure, except for some who feel disgust, like Matt Asay.
|
| What a strange ride it's been. You'd think the folks that wrote all those
| stories about SCO eating Linux's lunch would at least place a notice on their
| Corrections Page: "Um. About that lunch stuff, we were totally duped by SCO.
| They haven't won anything. The best they can do is not lose as big as they
| could have."
|
| [...]
|
| But someone sent me Maureen O'Gara's latest, a very hilarious snip. She of
| course is warning that Linux end users are at risk, because SCO can now sue
| them for infringing UnixWare. Heh heh. Folks, they could have sued for
| post-APA UnixWare five years ago. In fact, that is part of what SCOsource was
| allegedly about. Remember? That's the story. So it's nothing new that SCO can
| sue over UnixWare. And yet, they never did. If you look at the IBM case, not
| one line of infringed code from UnixWare was listed by SCO. Would that be for
| a reason? Like there isn't any? You think?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080717055141696
Where are the Rob Enderles and Paul Murphies?
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| And after all has been (almost) said and done I'm left wondering: Where are
| the Rob Enderles and Paul Murphies of this world that were willing to bet
| their souls on SCO winning the case? Was it Rob that said that he had
| seen "very compelling evidence" of copyright infringement under an NDA?
| I wonder SCO losing won't show up on their "missed predictions" section of
| their resume... oh, and Steve Ballmer... you better sell that bottle of
| champaigne you were saving for the time SCO won the case... it must be worth
| a little more money after all the time that passed by.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-17-018-35-OP-CD-LL-0001
SCO Penalized $2.5M in Novell Unix Case
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| Both parties may be able to appeal the decision, suggesting that the long,
| overdrawn case could continue to hobble along even longer than it already
| has. To quote Steven Vaughan-Nichols, "Like the 11th chapter of a bad horror
| movie, the SCO zombie keeps stumbling forward moaning "Linux," instead
| of "brains."
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/SCO-Penalized-25M-in-Novell-Unix-Case/
Related:
After SCO Dies
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| Could Novell open-source Unix? What will OpenServer customers do? Can Sun
| claim some customers for OpenSolaris?
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| [...]
|
| It's going to happen. Some time in 2008, SCO will finally stop thrashing on
| the floor and die. Will it be Novell draining it dry of its last financial
| resources in the U.S. District Court in Utah? Or, will it be the bankruptcy
| court in Delaware divvying up the last bits and pieces of the once-proud Unix
| company?
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2243762,00.asp
Did Microsoft ruin SCO?
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| Which comes to the scenario in mind. Gates approaches McBride and puts forth
| a proposition that SCO should try and make money out of Linux. He offers to
| bankroll the operation in a backhanded manner and then steps back to watch
| the action unfold. His reasoning for doing this? To have a test run before he
| puts Microsoft through the same paces. Either way he wins.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/did-microsoft-ruin-sco-19663
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