SCO Wants Summary Ruling, Wants To Appeal Unix Ownership Decision

Posted by Zonk on Friday August 31, 2007 @05:54AM from the before-the-door-shuts dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SCO is asking the court to enter a final judgment on the Unix ownership issues so that it can seek an immediate appeal. The logic for this, according to Groklaw Editor Pamela Jones, is that SCO would rather appeal right away so it can try all its claims at IBM, should it successfully appeal the judge's order. 'Otherwise, SCO has to wait until Novell goes through trial to a verdict and then appeal, and while it is in the appeal process, IBM would go forward in its now much smaller version, based on the August 10th ruling ... The trial starts, though, in less than a month and it will last less than a week, so none of this makes any sense if you look at a calendar. I think, therefore, it must be about FUD, so it sounds like SCO is on the move again.' The text of the request is available online. "

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Of course, they have no choice by Opportunist · 2007-08-31 06:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

They HAVE to appeal. Everything else would be suicide. It's all they got. It's like not appealing a death sentence. Not appealing it means that you already lost. What could they lose? Nothing. What could they gain? Survival.

Did anyone really think they wouldn't?

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