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Novell Asks Court to Separate SCOsource Money
clusterix writes "Groklaw has posted Novell's answer to SCO's slander of title complaint. In it, Novell produces many counter claims. The most eye-catching is the claim for the revenue from the SCOsource licenses bought by Microsoft and Sun and others. Novell states that they must be SVRX licenses which entitles them to 95% of revenue in royalties. They further request a trust to be constructed to hold the revenue until the case is decided. It is hard to see how the judge could deny such a request to protect the money which will likely bankrupt SCO."
Completely disagree. If SCO is bankrupt without the funds in question, and those funds do belong to Novell, then Novell stands to lose considerably if/when SCO goes bankrupt anyway.
Given that situation, it's not at all unreasonable for at least SOME of that money to be physically sequestered.
If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up space!
back when this whole thing started, sun was pretty anti-linux, and we all know microsoft loves linux. i think this was a grand conspiracy conducted jointly by microsoft and sun, and the method of payoff to sco was the licensing purchases that they made.
The real question on this story will be how much and when was information known. Did SCO fraud MS/Sun or where they partners in all this. If so, then they may end up be held liable by IBM/SEC.
In addition, with the fraudulent paper, it shows that SCO is willing to go to extraordinary lengths. I wonder if perhaps the 2 suicides should be investigated further? Mormons do not commit suicides and both were practicing.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
This has the potential of finishing off SCO for good. The way things have been going with this case, I don't have so much hope that will be the end, but if it could be, what a grand finale that would be! Not only will we have the satisfaction to see the litigious bastards go down, but more importantly, beautiful irony, the money Microsoft and Sun had invested in hurting Linux will end up in the pockets of a Linux champion! Talk about karma...
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As noted in a Groklaw comment:
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110. novell also seeks an order from the court attaching SCO's assets pending
adjudication of this claim because SCO is quickly dissipating its assets.
And I disagre with your comment in at least one other regard -- I never implied that the court would "award" money. "Sequester" != "award".
If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up space!
Word of advice regarding groklaw: RTFA *and* the comments. The stuff is not as simple as it looks. It's a lot like debugging somebody else's code. Then come back when there is a new article, lather, rinse, repeat. I say this because there's a metric assload of wrong ideas and misinformation floating around about how this stuff works.
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