SCO Denied Motion To Change IBM Case Again

Rob writes "SCO Group Inc's attempt to change its legal case against IBM Corp for the third time has been denied by the judge, who has also set the two companies a deadline to present their respective evidence with specificity. Despite repeated public declarations that it has evidence Linux contains Unix code that infringes its copyright, SCO has yet to present any evidence to the court." Bad news for them all around, lately.

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Oh, this is too funny

[roman_mir]

That the only comment so far moded as +5 Interesting is the one that points at a Groklaw discussion.

Oh, man, both comments and moderators on /. are more relevant today than they will ever be, and this is not a joke!

Re:Bad news? Why?

[ptbarnett]

(Lincoln, the -Liberal- Republican, of the party that later became the modern-day Democratic Party, as opposed to the modern-day Republican Party that derives its roots primarily from the Whigs.)

Not exactly.

Birth of the Republican Party

Organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories, the Party is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson or the National Republican Party of Henry Clay. The ideology of the reborn Republican party, however, did follow that of the early Democratic-Republicans. During Jefferson's presidency, he was called a "Republican", but the reference was to the party now known as the Democratic-Republican Party. That party later split into the Democratic Party and the Whig Party. The latter was formed in the winter of 1833-1834 but was defunct by the time of the American Civil War.

The first convention of the U.S. Republican Party was held on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Michigan. Many of its initial policies were inspired by the Whig Party, which by then was in decline. Many of the early members of the Republican Party came from the Whigs, the Free Soil Party, and American Party. Since its inception, its chief opposition has been the Democratic Party.

John C. Frémont ran as the first Republican nominee for President in 1856, using the political slogan: "Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men, Frémont." Although Frémont's bid was unsuccessful, the party grew especially rapidly in Midwestern states, where slavery had long been prohibited, and in the Northeast, culminating in a sweep of victories in the Northern states. The ensuing election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ended the domination of the fragile coalition of pro-slavery southern Democrats and conciliatory northern Democrats which had existed since the days of Andrew Jackson. Instead, a new era of Republican dominance based in the industrial north ensued.

Re:Bad news? Why?

[IgnoramusMaximus]

Not exactly.

Yes it is amusing how the Republicans of old used to stand for most of the things "liberal"-Democrats stand for these days. Rebublican was the party of Lincoln who said for example: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration". Or John Quincy Adams: "America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She well knows that she might become dictatress of the world but she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit."

Very very sad really.