Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Trial Set To Determine What SCO Owes Novell

Posted by Zonk on from the i'm-going-to-guess-a-lot dept.

BobB-nw writes with word that this April will be the trial date for SCO's financial reckoning. Novell will discover via the courts how much (if anything) SCO is going to be compelled to pay in compensation for the lengthy trial over Unix code rights. The NetworkWorld piece also offers an overview of the case. "In September, The Wall Street Journal described the ruling against SCO as 'a boon to the open source software movement.' But experts say Unix is filled with technology that carries copyrights tied to many different companies and that it would be a nightmare to open source the Unix code collectively. Instead, Novell would have to pick and choose pieces to open-source, a process that could begin once the trial has ended."

7 of 126 comments (clear)

  1. I'll let my lawyer, Johnny, speak for me... by monkeyboythom · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want my two dollars!

  2. I hated SCO first by MosesJones · · Score: 3, Funny

    One thing that annoys me in these posts is all these Johnny Come Lately people who have just started to hate SCO as a result of their actions against Linux. I've been actively hating SCO ever since I had to use their piece of crap OS in 1993 on a 286 PC. All the bugger had to do was keep the modem connection open so we could send email but would it stay up? Would it buggery. It was falling over all the time and in the end we had to go 3 months without email to the outside world, a contributory factor in the company going bust.

    So you think you have come to loathe SCO over these last few years? Let me tell you that real hatred takes 15 years to mature :)

    --
    An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
  3. Admit it ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You might just as well admit now: Nobody will be satisfied before the day comes when Darl is in jail and his wife is doing two dollar blow jobs in the parking outside WalMart to pay the bills ...

  4. Re:And???.. by multisync · · Score: 4, Funny

    SCO is going to pay Novell How?..


    Maybe Microsoft could purchase some more licenses
    --
    I don't care why you're posting AC
  5. Hey Darl! by spun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't forget to pay your $6,990,000 Novell court fees, you cock smoking teabagger.

    --
    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  6. Re:Anybody want some SCOX stock? by WK2 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I prefer Angel Soft.

    --
    Write your own Choose Your Own Adventure. http://www.freegameengines.org/gamebook-engine/
  7. Re:Just how much does SCO have? by bhtooefr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like stockholder rights management. ;)