SCO's fate hangs on Unix suit outcome
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| McBride also said Kimball's decision could affect the new reorganization plan
| SCO is preparing to file in Delaware, where the company filed for bankruptcy
| last year.
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http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_9138979
SCO-Novell trial ends, judge promises decision soon
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| The trial between The SCO Group and Novell over disputed fees involving a
| computer operating system ended today with the judge promising a decision
| soon.
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http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_9133274
SCO On The Stand
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| There are times when the jokes just seem to tell themselves. Yesterday,
| during testimony for Novell's lawsuit against SCO to determine how much
| Novell was owed for its ownership of the Unix copyrights, none other than
| Darl McBride took the stand and said two things that will no doubt become
| fodder for .SIG files from here to eternity.
|
| [...]
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| Fortunately, the right people were not that naive. And now we're at a point
| where scaring people away from open source on wholly spurious grounds is so
| passe that even Microsoft is leaving it behind.
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http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_9133274
That last bit is far from true. Microsoft just knows how it hide it better and
it often uses other parties to do its dirty deeds against Free software.
Novell-SCO trial now is in hands of judge
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| Arguments this week focused on how much value to attribute to the licensed
| technology. Novell claimed that technology it controlled — several versions
| of Unix System V — was a valuable part of the SCO licensing initiative.
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http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695275958,00.html
Related:
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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| "We've moved past the ideology," said Sutor, in Salt Lake City
| Thursday to attend graduation ceremonies at Neumont University."
| Many people have figured out that there are a number of ways tom
| ake money from the 'open source' model."
|
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| The litigation has been characterized as part of a proxy war being
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| waged by Microsoft against Linux, seen as a prime challenger to
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| Windows. Microsoft has been a prime funding source for SCO, but
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| earlier this month stunned open-sourcers by announcing a development
| pact for Novell's Suse-brand of Linux.
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