DaimlerChrysler/SCO Case Winds Down

kuwan writes "It was previously reported that SCO moved for and was denied a stay in their case agains DaimlerChrysler. (Remember that all of SCO's claims against DaimlerChrysler were thrown out except for the issue of whether or not DaimlerChrysler made its certification in a timely manner.) The opposition and reply memos for that motion are now available and apparently SCO's motion was so weak that DaimlerChrysler is asking SCO to pay the cost of preparing their opposition memo. A nice summary of the latest maneuvers is available at scofacts.org."

Comments

Fall of SCO

[October_30th]

Any idea when SCO will finally die?

Re:Fall of SCO

[tdvaughan]

They're probably going to end up wholly owned by Boies and Schiller at this rate. It's sad in a way. Then IBM can pick over what's left and GPL Unix once and for all.

From back in June 2003 and Beyond competence

[NZheretic]

In reply to 9th June posting SCO Shows 80 Lines of Evidence, I posted an outline of the issues the SCO Group had to overcome before even beginning to go after other Linux distributions, developers and users .

Every point I made back then has since played out in court as predicted. Even the SCO Group is now relying on the same interpretation of the GPL license in its defence against IBM.

As I stated on March 10, 2004:

The SCO Group has entered into a series of essentially inherently flawed lawsuits and fraudulent license claims against users of the Linux operating system. Since 1994, Caldera International and the Santa Cruz Operation have been accepting, profiting from and distributing software developed by hundreds of independent developers under the terms of the GPL and LGPL license. The SCO Group has failed to put forward any sustainable legal theory why it should not abide by the terms of the GPL license. Detailed investigation into other facts and evidence which regularly conflict with the SCO Group's various legal claims, filing, press and public statements, raises serous questions which can no longer be explained away by a lack of competence in either the SCO Group's CEOs or the SCO Group's legal representation.

Re:Wow

[catenos]

Does anyone else see the irony that this was modded "offtopic"?

No. "Irony" implies that something different than the expected result happened. I can see nothing unexpected in either
- a meta-discussion being considered off-topic,
- an off-topic post mentioning the word off-topic itself,
- such a post being modded off-topic,
- ./ mods moderating an on-topic post as off-topic*
- even if such a post complains about exactly this (this is ./, remember?),
- a post (indirectly) forseeing its moderation getting modded real high or real low,
- and so on.

Regardless how you spin it, there isn't much irony in how it got modded, especially considering this is Slashdot.


*I don't consider this thread to be on-topic (as its meta-discussion started with a troll), but let's be open-minded for a moment.