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Novell Wins vs. SCO

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-wait-a-minute dept.

Aim Here writes "According to Novell's website, and the Salt Lake Tribune, the jury in the SCO v. Novell trial has returned a verdict: Novell owns the Unix copyrights. This also means that SCO's case against IBM must surely collapse too, and likely the now bankrupt SCO group itself. It's taken 7 years, but the US court system has eventually done the right thing ..." No doubt this is the last we will ever hear of any of this.

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  1. Novel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hurray! Just in time for Novell to be bought out by Microsoft.

  2. Winning in this case... by weinrich · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...is like declaring victory because you're the last person to hit the ground in the plane crash. How much has this cost Novell and IBM in real $$'s? With SCO bankrupt how can either expect to recoup any of the 7 years of court costs?

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  3. Re:Seven years for eight hours work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It died alright: http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=SCOXQ

  4. Re:Seven years for eight hours work by argent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's actual volume. Who the hell is *buying* it? Some badly programmed robot?

  5. Re:Who's next? by ArhcAngel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wonder who will do their bidding next?

    NOVELL

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  6. Re:Organ sale? by whisper_jeff · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I realize you were making a joke (and a funny one at that) but, let's be serious - the people behind thing (Darl first and foremost among them) made TONS of money off of this. To imply that he (and his ilk) are stupid is missing the point. Just because he ran his business into the ground doesn't mean that he's run his own finances into the ground. Who cares about the success or failure of a company when you're sipping champagne on your yacht?

  7. Re:Seven years for eight hours work by AuMatar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Some idiot had to be the last man to buy the shares. Whyever they did it, they still held them. On top of that, any broker will let you borrow any shares any of their clients have, so long as there's enough of them in the brokerage to avoid naked shorting rules.

    Also, in some rarely traded stocks they'll help you find someone who will let you borrow them for a fee. That was likely the best way to make money holding SCO in the past few years.

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