Archive for the ‘SCO’ Category
Novell Wipes the Floor with SCO
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 [...]
SCO Still Manages To Bite Novell in the Ass
Ah, sweet irony. On the day that Novell won against SCO on the basis of an agreement that most people (the die-hard Linux contingent excepted) think transferred IP, it lost to Microsoft on the basis of an agreement that most people (except the judge) think didn’t transfer IP, and as a topper SCO is involved [...]
SCO, the Fat Lady & Novell’s Slippery Grasp on the Unix Copyrights
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 [...]
Who Are All Those People at the SCO Trial?
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 [...]
Jury To Decide in March Who Owns Unix
SCO’s case against Novell for slander of title is going to trial on March 8. That means a Utah jury will decide who the heck owns Unix. Novell tried like the dickens but failed to get the date pushed back to next summer during a scheduling hearing Tuesday with Judge Ted Stewart, who’ll be presiding. [...]
What If Darl McBride Gets Fired?
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 [...]
SCO Ordered into the Hands of a Trustee
After a bankruptcy court hearing on July 27 that ran until 10:30 at night, Judge Kevin Gross went off to have a think about it and came back Wednesday with the decision to turn SCO over to a Chapter 11 trustee. He denied everybody’s motions. SCO can’t sell everything-but-its-litigation to Unxis. Novell and IBM can’t [...]
SCO Rises Phoenix-Like
Like a phoenix SCO has survived IBM and Novell’s attempts to force it into liquidation and then grind it into dust ahead of any decision on its summary judgment appeal. In what the judge described as a “Perry Mason” moment, SCO waltzed into bankruptcy court Monday with a surprise asset purchase agreement hammered out that [...]
SCO Files Its Appeal
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 [...]
SCO’s Appeal Hits the Fast Track
It’s beginning to look as though we may get to hear this year if the federal appeals court buys the idea that Novell owns Unix. SCO’s appeal of the Utah district court’s 2007 summary judgment finding in Novell’s favor has been put on an expedited schedule by the US Court of Appeals for the 10th [...]