SCO Slammed in Slander of Title Suit

SillySlashdotName writes "Judge Kimball has stated that The SCO Group has failed to meet the requirements of the law in its complaint against Novell and has dismissed the case but gives TSG 30 days to try to meet the legal requirements. More info on groklaw." EWeek also has a story.

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Puff, puff, pass...

[BrynM]

From the article:

Marc Modersitzki, SCO's public relations manager, said, "We're pleased with the ruling. We look forward to responding to the court's special damages request." This request gives SCO the chance to amend its complaint against Novell.

So they're pleased they get a chance to clarify their complaint, but the idea of being pleased about the ruling itself makes me think that Darl has been passing the crack pipe around the office. I personally don't think they are going to make the 30 day deadline for filing the special damages request. SCO has been acting like a student that professes to be smart, but never does a bit of their assignments.

SCO is the suxx0rz

[rice_burners_suck]

Judge Kimball has stated that The SCO Group has failed to meet the requirements of the law in its complaint against Novell and has dismissed the case

Yes!!! Yes!!! SCO is going DOWN baby!!!

but gives TSG 30 days to try to meet the legal requirements.

Noooooooo!!!!!!! Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!!!! Don't give 'em any more time--they're going to use it to stretch this bullshit even longer!!!!

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Ok, seriously now, I think that each of SCO's cases is going to get thrown out one-by-one, and when SCO has to start paying others' legal fees (I can't wait until they have to pay IBM's), they are going to disappear, without accomplishing what Microsoft wants them to accomplish, which is to screw the Linux community over. I think they will accomplish the exact opposite, which is giving lots and lots and lots of free advertising worldwide to Linux, and then when SCO loses all these cases, it will prove to the world that Linux is legitimate, and Microsoft will have screwed themselves over. Nanny nanny boo boo!!!

Wheels

[alficles]

The Wheels of Justice do grind slowly, but they are grinding in the right direction. IBM, Novell, and all the Good Guys(tm) will eventually win. And then the countersuits will destroy SCO. Hopefully, the countersuits will destroy Darl. Also, we don't want the judge to make a mistake here. If he had thrown the case out, SCO would appeal it back in and things would take even longer. We want IBM/Novell/Good Guys(tm) to win fair and square. It is a clear cut case, they just need to make sure SCO can't claim they were beaten unfairly... because they will anyway. :)

Worse then sausage.

[killjoe]

They say you should never observe how sausage or laws are made. I wish to amend that to say you should never observe how laws are litigated.

What a shameful display of the american legal system when after a year and half all the court can say is "I'll grant you another extension and the trial won't be till september of 2005".

A five year old would have settled this a year ago.

Re:Yet another deadline

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Oh no. These companies are like horror movie monsters. No matter how thoroughly you kill them, someone buys up their IP and in a few years decides to try to sue the world at large themselves.

SCO vs. IBM is just an attempt to re-try USL vs. Berkely. If SCO goes under before being hammered flat in the court system it'll be Wayland/Yutani vs. the Linux Developers Guild in 2013.

"SCO left out in the cold by IT industry"

[eddy]

Hilarious.

"That however is where Young and SCO's head Darl McBride leave reality alone and continue with their evangelistic pronouncements which are what have put the company in its sticky situation in the first place."

[...]

But still the company can't stop itself from issuing threats. "If they're willfully not buying licences, the price will be a horrific price," said Young. Why? Because of all the penalties that SCO will add when it has won all its lawsuits. "They run a huge risk. What they're looking at right now is a bet and that bet is going to get more expensive." But every week, the horse is looking more of an outsider.

Just go there and read it. I think the press is going to gang up on SCO and really kick them. What goes up, must come down.

Time Taken

[buckhead_buddy]

People have commented here that they can't understand why it's taken so long to come to this ruling with the facts so clear cut.

Just remember that it's easier for a person to prove they own something than prove that someone else doesn't own it. If SCO had a legal document showing clear ownership they could have had this wrapped up much faster. On the other hand, Novel is saying "We have these documents that do NOT show SCO ownership." which doesn't prove your side; it only disproves the other.

SCO might always find a previously unknown document showing clear copyright conveyance.

Re:Time Taken

[EvilTwinSkippy]

SCO might always find a previously unknown document showing clear copyright conveyance.

And OJ might track down Nicole's real killer.

I would think that before I filed the first brief in a 2 billions dollar lawsuit I would have said paperwork copied a few hundred times, and plate the originals in platnum-iridium.

If there is no paperwork, it didn't happen. If there was paperwork in this case, it should have been the first thing on the evidence table.