SCO Owes Novell $2.5 Million

CrkHead writes "Groklaw has posted Judge Kimball's ruling on SCO v Novell. For those that have been following this saga, we finally get to watch the house of cards start to fall. For those new to this story, it started with SCO suing Novell and having all its motions decided in summary judgement and went to trial only on Novell's counter claims. Cheers to PJ for keeping us informed!"

Comments

Strange

[Anonymous Coward]

The judge said something like "Pay the 2.5 million dollar fee you c*** ....."

let's hope

[jacquesm]

that they can't pay in SCO stock :) (or whatever moniker they go by now, pink slips or something to that effect).

SCO reminds me of

[nawcom]

that 17 year old girl on Maury Povich's horrible show that goes through 20 different men trying to find the father of her kid. Give it up already!

Obligatory

[Yvan256]

<Nelson>Ha-Ha!</Nelson>

Re:Money comes from where?

[jacquesm]

technically, yes. All they need though is enough money to appeal, the payment will probably be stayed during the appeal. So, it isn't over yet by the looks of it. Rumours of SCO's demise have been greatly exaggerated to date, they won't be dead until they're staked through the corporate heart with a wooden stick or shot with some silver bullet. See your nearest vampire/zombie movie theater for more information about this procedure...

licenses

[edalytical]

They will obviously pay in Linux CPU licenses. I hear they're worth $699.

Re:licenses

[Yvan256]

Wasn't it $666?

Re:licenses

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure, that is, if you use metric conversion and not imperial conversion. Imperial conversion is pretty easy, you take the dollar amount you have and then invade the country you want to convert your money to, subtract the head of state, add a puppet government and then multiply by the compound interest they owe for the weapon system you financed them +/- any collateral damage and/or hush money.

For those new to this story?!

[niceone]

For those new to this story

Welcome to slashdot! I advise you to leave now while you still can.

Re: For those new to this story?!

[ciaran.mchale]

For those new to this story

Welcome to slashdot! I advise you to leave now while you still can.

That's stupid advice: it didn't even have a car analogy.

Re:Money comes from where?

[kazade84]

See your nearest vampire/zombie movie theater for more information about this procedure...

Is that a movie theater run by vampires and zombies, or a theater run for vampire and zombie patrons? ;)

Re:Eureka!

[oodaloop]

But if God is all good and all powerful, why would he allow Jar Jar Binks to happen?

Re:The end? I doubt it.

[Yvan256]

Wow, now they're playing cards and next they're playing Guitar Hero. Selling Unix licenses sure sounds fun!

Re:Money comes from where?

[jacquesm]

Good call, I'll leave the ambiguity unresolved, since it is of no significance whatsoever and therefore can safely be made an issue of suspense.

apologies to Douglas Adams :)

Darl McBride gets a new job...

[Gordonjcp]

... and Ron Hovsepian gets his lawn mowed twice a week.

Re:Eureka!

[PakProtector]

A thing cannot exist in a vacuum. Without the darkness, how would we know the light? Without evil, there could be no good. Define a thing not by what it is, but by what it is not.

licensing fees

[Mr.Ned]

Maybe SCO can just give them 3,576 licenses for the Linux kernel.

Re:Money comes from where?

[MBGMorden]

"Oh, they've encased him in carbonite!"

Actually, a carbonite encased Darl might not look too bad hanging on a wall in Novell's throne room . . .

Re:Money comes from where?

[SimonGhent]

apologies to Douglas Adams :)

Unless he's a vampire/zombie I doubt he'll be complaining.

Re:Money comes from where?

[oldspewey]

So this money will come from where? Damn limited liability.

Actually various inside sources seem to indicate that Darl McBride will end up being sentenced to serve as Jerry Seinfeld's butler.

"C*********s" would be more like it...

[mkcmkc]

(nod to George Carlin)