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Novell Wins Against SCO Again

Posted by Unknown on from the case-finally-closed dept.

duh P3rf3ss3r writes "The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has just affirmed the District Court ruling in SCO v Novell (PDF) in its entirety. The decision is quite a good read and lays out the reasons why the court has rejected, in toto, SCO's attempt to re-argue the case before the Court of Appeals. Is this the last gasp for SCO or will they try to appeal this to the Supreme Court? The betting lines open at 11..." Realistically this is the end of the line for the case.

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  1. Not Dead Yet? by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously, how does SCO _still_ have any money left to pursue legal costs??

  2. Re:Again? by Zocalo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Too damn many.

    I'll believe it's all over when SCO's articles of incorporation have been burnt, the ashes salted, placed in a silver box, surrounded by garlic and placed outside the courthouse of the eastern district of Texas as an example to other patent trolls. I'd also like a waiver on public indeceny laws to permit pissing on the box, but you have to draw the line somewhere...

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    UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
  3. Why this went on so long by clemenstimpler · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The lawyers were paid upfront - so they may be forced to beat single bones of this skeleton to an en-banc-hearing or the Supreme Court. Both are dead ends.

    I guess this charade will have taught Boies Schiller & Flexner that such arrangements are a bad deal. Larry Ellison will have to cough up money for every step he wants to go in Oracle vs. Google (maybe the best coming out of this case).

    And, of course, the counterclaims of SCO vs. IBM may have to be dealt with.

  4. Still claiming ownership though. by pionzypher · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Seriously.... at what point do they have to remove this shit from their site?

    SCO is the owner of the UNIX Operating System Intellectual Property that dates back to 1969, when the UNIX System was created at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, SCO has acquired ownership of the copyrights and core technology associated with the UNIX System.

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    I'll believe in corporations having personhood when Texas executes one... - advocate_one
  5. bankruptcy trustee's role in theft! by anwyn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The most outrageous thing about this whole fiassco is the bankruptcy's trustee's complicity in SCO's theft. This is not money that SCO owes Novell. This is money that never was SCO's in the first place. Courts have ruled it was "converted" which means stolen. Yet the backruptcy trustee corruptly continues to hold and spend Novell's money. This makes him complicit in that theft.