It’s an utter rout. Linux is apparently saved whether it deserves to be or not. SCO Thursday lost its bid to get the jury verdict awarding Novell the Unix copyrights overturned along with its bid to get the copyrights despite the jury decision. It also lost its right to sue IBM for copying Unix code [...]
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SCO has one foot in the grave, but the sod hasn’t been thrown over it yet. With its copyright and slander-of-title case lost to Novell, it says it still means to bring its suspended contract and unfair competition case against IBM if the judge who presided over the Novell case – and who may have [...]
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Novell’s gone awfully quiet since last week when Elliott Associates, a New York hedge fund better known for trafficking in Peruvian debt, offered $5.75 a share to take in private. In fact, the only peep out of it has been the constant rustle of its stock trading hands apparently in anticipation of either a sweetened [...]
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Don’t you think it’s odd that a hedge fund with little experience to speak of in technology suddenly out of the blue makes a $2 billion bid to take Novell private – Novell, one of techland’s more screwed-up, unfixable brews – it even defeated Eric Schmidt, who’s supposed to be oh so smart, ah, but [...]
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Novell Asks Appeals Court To Reverse its Decision on SCO Novell Tuesday asked the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear en banc its decision overturning the Utah summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix to Novell and sending SCO’s suit against Novell back to Utah for trial. En banc would mean all of the God [...]
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