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Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the still-looking-for-a-fat-lady dept.

blackbearnh writes "Last week, the net was all abuzz with speculation that SCO was finally gone and done for. With the final judgment in SCO v. Novell in, and SCO millions of dollars in the hole to Novell, it seemed like the fat lady had finally sung. But like most things in the legal system, it isn't nearly that simple. O'Reilly Media sought out Groklaw's Pamela Jones, and got a rundown of what's still alive, and why a final end to the madness may be many years away. 'Summing up, it looks bleak for SCO at the moment, but let's enter the alternate realm of SCO's best-case scenario in its dreams: in that realm, SCO wins on appeal, which one of SCO's lawyers indicated might take a year and a half or five years, and the case is sent back to Utah for trial by jury, which is what SCO wanted (as opposed to trial by judge, which is what it got), then everything listed above (except for the IPO class action) comes alive again, presumably, depending on what the appellate court decides. Then SCO is in position once again to go after Linux end users, as well as IBM, et al.'"

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  1. OT but I don't care by halcyon1234 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WTF is up with the userpage! It was bad I get slapped with the dumbass firehose-with-Idle's-stylesheet, but now I don't even have a tab for my comments.

    If I want Firehose, I'll go to to Firehose. (I don't, and wont)

    If I want Idle, I'll go to Idle. (I don't, and wont)

    If I want my userpage to be a clean, simple and informative interface, I'll click on my username in the upper right. Oh wait, I can't!

    If you want to dick around with the userpage, fine. Just give me a checkbox that says "opt out of this crapfest" like you did with the index and comments.

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    1. Re:OT but I don't care by JCSoRocks · · Score: 4, Insightful

      holy crap I was about to post the exact same thing. The style sheet is the least of it. I still haven't even figured out how to tell if anyone's posted a reply to any of my comments. Now you have to click every comment... and reading my entire comment on my user page is just useless. I already know what I said, I'm looking for the replies. This is supposed to be a "discussion" not "oooh, shiny, look at all the cool crap I wrote. I must be awesome. So awesome that every time I go to my user page I want to read what I wrote over and over."

      When idle got jacked it didn't bother me because I almost never go there... but user pages? really?

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    2. Re:OT but I don't care by orclevegam · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'm glad someone other than me has noticed it as well. I clicked on my use page to see if anyone had posted replies to any of my comments the other day and thought at first that I had clicked on the firehose or worse, Idle. I did something I've never done before for the simple fact I didn't know what else to do, and posted a journal entry asking what the fuck happened to the user page.

      Please, do what you will with Idle/Firehose, no one really reads those anyway, but leave the user page alone, it's genuinely useful... or at least it was till you fucked with it.

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    3. Re:OT but I don't care by Rhapsody+Scarlet · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Same here. I happened to like the old userpage, now all I've got is this pseudo-idle mess with the actual posts crammed into a little corner. I didn't ask for idle, I didn't ask for the firehose, I asked for a user page!

      I think this is a sign that Slashdot has well and truly fallen for Incessant Redesign Disease, where they just have to change the design of everything every now and then to 'keep it fresh'. Nevermind if no one complained about the old design, or if you can't actually think of any way to improve on the old design, you've got to keep it fresh!

      Note to the Slashdot staff: You know all those +5 modded rants about Vista? You're doing the SAME FUCKING THING. If the site design needs changing, we'll let you know.

    4. Re:OT but I don't care by Jimmy+King · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I just hope they can save it, unlike the last website I frequented that this happened to. thespark.com was originally run by some college kids with a sense of humor and some tech skills. It was awesome for years. Then some corporate overlords flashed lots of money at them and like any sane young group of people, they sold. Then it started going downhill. Then the original people got tired of it going downhill and quit. Then it went downhill really, really fast.