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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Sources report the distinct smell of gold American Express cards in the SCO v Novell courtroom in Salt Lake City this week suggesting that some of the spectators are money people like, oh, say, Charles River assessing whether there’s an opportunity to clean up if SCO wins. Darl McBride may not be the only person [...]
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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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Darl McBride, the CEO of SCO and the industry’s favorite pariah, expects to get fired any minute now. He expects to get fired because he’s adamantly opposed to winding SCO down, laying off its people and settling the company’s litigation against Novell and IBM for chump change, which is the way he sees things going [...]
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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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A day after SCO’s victory in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, a Chapter 11 trustee was appointed to decide what should be done with the company, whether it should be sold off to UnXis and whether it should continue to chase its litigation dreams. The trustee is Edward Cahn, retired chief judge of the [...]
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SCO Wednesday filed its appeal brief asking the 10th Circuit in Denver to overturn the Utah district court’s summary judgment finding that Novell owns the Unix copyrights and that Novell had the right to tell SCO to call off the dogs and waive its claims against IBM, the claims that allege that IBM ripped off [...]
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