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SCO Zombie Creaks Into Motion Again
phands writes "SCO has moved to partially reopen their 10 year old lawsuit against IBM. Unbelievable! Details at Groklaw."
From the article, quoting SCO's filing: "SCO respectfully requests that the Court rule on IBM’s Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO’s Unfair Competition Claim (SCO’s Sixth Cause of Action), dated September 25, 2006 (Docket No. 782), which motion is directed at the Project Monterey Claim, and IBM’s Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO’s Interference Claims (SCO’s Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Causes of Action), dated September 25, 2006 (Docket No. 783), which motion is directed at the Tortious Interference Claims."
Double tap.
For exactly this reason
Isn't what happening in the US right now similar to situations where some animals kills their own offspring in order to survive themselves?
But when that happens it can also be damaging to the future survival since what's culled may actually have a better opportunity and be better adapted to survival in the long run.
Being a patent troll is not that different from being a cannibal.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
The whole SCO story isn't all bad, perhaps not bad at all. It has resulted in some pretty important stuff like auditing the Linux code for copyrighted stuff, keeping developers and contributors honest to the code, and really putting these legal issues to test so the rules are clear and hardening Linux while showing that it is a serious player and that large companies can get involved. Linux as a project is absolutely better off for it. Hard times makes does that to stuff, if it doesn't kill you. I thing the battling with Apple will result in the same thing: Less copying/imitating/plagiarism and more innovating. That's what we want, isn't it? New great products, not more of the same?
- Henrik
- when the Shadows descend -
As a person living in Utah, I can attest that there is an inordinate number of out of work lawyers here. Not only that, we have a lot of lawyers here that are very entrepreneurial. That is a very bad combination, and there are lots of silly legal things happening here. So, if your choices are to take on a potentially hopeless law suit or collect up shopping carts at Walmart, stupid law suits don't look to bad.
Because they can't tell them to jump off a cliff. They have to tell the judge to tell them to jump off a cliff. And for that to happen, you have to persuade the judge that you're right. And the SCO lawyers are trying to persuade him that they're right instead. And the judge doesn't know the technicalities that well, and is forced to address every single point, one at a time, letting both sides have a fair crack at persuading him in intricate technical and legal detail for every one of 100s and 100s of points. And then even when he's made his mind up on any given batch of points, an appeal might be called and another judge will need to do the exact same thing.
That's what takes 10 torturous, expensive years.
That they both are of a darker hue than I am makes not a jot of difference.