SCO Denied Again In Court

CDWalton writes "Groklaw has the latest in the SCO v. IBM case. Judge Wells denied SCO the opportunity to get depositions from involved parties after the date she had specified as the cutoff for those activities." From the article: "Brent Hatch started out talking about the request to take the depositions of Intel, Oracle, and The Open Group. Judge Wells brought up her October 12, 2005 order and said that depositions MUST be completed by the cutoff date. That any that cannot be taken by that date must be forgone. Brent stated that they properly noticed the depositions before the cutoff date and that they were not taken for reasons outside his, or his client's, control ... Judge Wells asked if the subpeonas were defective in some manner. Hatch: Yes, they were."

Comments

Re:What I find interesting

[cgenman]

Liqudity by month:

January: 100,000 dollars
February: 0 dollars
March: 120,000 dollars
April: 0 dollars
May: 150,000 dollars
June: 0 dollars
July: 190,000 dollars
August: 0 dollars
September: 0 dollars
October: 0 dollars
November: 0 dollars
December: 0 dollars

"He's dead, Jim"

USPTO - perpetual motion machines

[Flying pig]

Submitted: that on the evidence of the SCO case, the USPTO should review its ban on claims to have developed perpetual motion machines. The SCO share price oscillates continuously without the input of external energy, and the air emerging from the case is at a higher temperature than the input air, showing that energy is continuously being extracted.

Although this is not directly related to the SCO case, which is about copyright and licensing rather than patents, it could be argued that the decision of the USPTO to award patents based on software or business processes has created the conditions in which legally based perpetual motion machines are feasible.

Re:Why do cases take long?

[AnonymousPrick]

I'm actually quite amazed that the Judge has given them so much slack up till this point.

The more slack; the more rope to hang themselves.

So wait... wait

[Anonymous Coward]

Am I to understand that the "events beyond the control" of SCO that lead to the delay was that... SCO messed up their paperwork?

The fact that SCO considers inability to do their paperwork correctly an "event beyond their control" is rather telling I think.

Re:Why do cases take long?

[Jacco de Leeuw]

So, to sum it all up.

The good news: IBM is spending one billion dollar on Linux. The bad news: it is all going to their lawyers...

And in other SCO news D.M. to give keynote speach

[AaronW]

Apparently Darl McBride will be giving a keynote speach at the Moscow Interop show in June. How the hell could anyone consider him for a kenote speach unless it's to throw stuff at him. Article on Yahoo at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060215/law019.html?.v= 44.

-Aaron

-5 Confused

[Quiet_Desperation]

I had a really insightful comment, but I'm still hung up on the giant beavers story from earlier.

Re:Why do cases take long?

[cpt kangarooski]

I don't really see the downside there.

Re:What I find interesting

[TubeSteak]

When SCO can't pay, IBM gets SCO licenses and SCO is history.

They coulda just bought a license for 600 bucks...
[Ducks]

Re:And in other SCO news D.M. to give keynote spea

[volpe]

Did this post get a (5, Funny) because of the remark about throwing stuff at Darl? Or because he misspelled "speech" three times?