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Judge Rejects SCO's Motion For a New Trial
An anonymous reader writes "A judge has rejected SCO's motion for a new trial in the company's dispute over UNIX intellectual property ownership. The ruling validates a verdict that was issued in April by a jury who determined that Novell, and not SCO, is the rightful owner of the UNIX SVRX copyrights. This means SCO cannot continue to pursue its litigation against IBM and other Linux users. 'There was substantial evidence that Novell made an intentional decision to retain ownership of the copyrights,' the judge wrote in his decision. 'The Court finds that the verdict is not clearly, decidedly, or overwhelmingly against the weight of the evidence. Therefore, SCO is not entitled to a new trial.'"
I really hope this is the last I ever have to hear about SCO.
Well, just remember that you can't spell scourge of the earth without SCO
"I'm not dead yet!"
I hate it when my favorite show doesn't get renewed for another season.
San Jose, CALIFORNIA. In response to a judge's dismissal of it's demands for a new trial today, SCO filed 10,000 new lawsuits against various entities including IBM, Oracle, and G-d. "One of these must stick," said SCO's Chief Extortion Officer. "It's not about principle. It's about being money-grubbing assholes."
It would have been more believable if you'd mentioned that SCO had hired *IAA's legal team to sue the first 10,000 Linux users in its efforts to stop the piracy of the Unix source code it doesn't rightfully own.
The head of Daryl McBride is seen in court appealing the latest decision against SCO which declared Daryl McBride not eligible for compensation for inclusion into Futurama episodes on the grounds that he is "just wasting space now that other more important heads need shelf space for. Like Tiger Woods 9th wife" said Leyla. Bender, while trying to get McBride to bite his shiny metal ass, broke the head jar and dropped the head of McBride accidentally into a metal stamping machine. The head of Pam Jones laughed her jar fluid into a total froth while Fry looked on confused.
I really hope this is the last I ever have to hear about SCO.
Well, just remember that you can't spell scourge of the earth without SCO
You can't spell breakfast scones either. Or scotland yard.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
That got cleared up so quickly and easily, I'm impressed!
1. Remember that cutting off the legal arms does no good.
2. Remember that zombie companies can continue to be threatening even if they have no leg to stand on.
3. Exposing and severing the connection between the brain and the rest of the corporate body may help, but the remaining parts can still remain dangerous, and typically twitch for some time.
4. Corporate zombies are often controlled by evil overlords. Real victory occurs only after the evil overlord is slain.
5. Remember that anything that was once good and lovable about the company that has been zombified is long gone and completely unrecoverable.
6. Zombie companies are frequently covered in parasites (lawyers).
I am officially gone from
Or scrotum.
Just putting it out there. The word.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
In Soviet Russia, SCO helps spell MOSCOW!
In the rest of the world, SCO spells the answer to "What smells bad and spends forever circling the rim after you flush?"
SCO - the 7-Year Flush! That's a LOT of crap!
"Will someone please squash this bug please."
Better yet, warm up your arm and be the first one to throw your best shot! Mulligans are allowed. My favorite McBride quote from a CRN Interview:
"
CRN: This lawsuit is very unpopular among many in the open-source community.
McBride: We're either right or we're not. If we're wrong, we deserve people throwing rocks at us..."
One copy of SCO UnixWare is bad enough. You want to create a fork of it as well?!?!?!?!?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
(Best Montgomery Burns voice) "Excellent." Pardon me while I go warm up.
Yes, so indeed did I. Not just read. I joined, commented, contributed cash, believed the hype, thought I was helping, proofed, supplied corrections blah, blah. Then saw the insidious, and frankly ugly, nature of the moderation system, plus I couldn't quite reconcile the "open source" rhetoric on the site with the "This is my space, agree with me completely or fuck off" Oh yes, and the attack dogs. Jeez, disagree & you'd be jelly in a blender. "You dare impugn the God that is Pamela Jones? I will hunt down your children"
I didn't know Pam invented Wikipedia.
If you want to be sure, you have to nuke from orbit.