SCO-Novell trial set for April (Provo Daily Herald)
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| A long-delayed federal trial that will, hopefully, wrap up the remainder of a
| four-year battle between Novell and the bankrupt SCO group over intellectual
| property rights to Unix will finally proceed.
| On Friday, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball issued an order for a four-day
| trial to start April 29.
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| Friday's order follows a November ruling by a bankruptcy judge in Delaware
| who decided to allow the federal trial in Utah to proceed to determine if SCO
| had the authority to collect Unix license fees and what portion of the fees
| it collected from Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems and other Linux customers
| should be returned to Novell. Novell said those fees could potentially amount
| to up to $40 million.
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http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/251688/18/
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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