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SCO v. IBM Is Officially Reopened

Posted by timothy on from the living-dead-sequel dept.

stoilis writes "Groklaw reports that the SCO vs IBM case is officially reopened: 'The thing that makes predictions a bit murky is that there are some other motions, aside from the summary judgment motions, that were also not officially decided before SCO filed for bankruptcy that could, in SCO's perfect world, reopen certain matters. I believe they would have been denied, if the prior judge had had time to rule on them. Now? I don't know.'"

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  1. Braaaaaaaiiiinnns! by sjames · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can't this just die already?

    1. Re:Braaaaaaaiiiinnns! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

      Come on, a Congressman has admitted that Snowden isn't lying. The universe had to do something to restore the cosmic balance, didn't it?

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    2. Re:Braaaaaaaiiiinnns! by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Interesting

      If Bill Gates is now looking for redemption with his foundation . . . this is one disease that he should eradicate.

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  2. Re: This reminds me of action movies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is going to be the worst sequel ever.

  3. We need to rename this by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

    I officially move that this case be renamed from SCO v. IBM to Jason Voorhees.

  4. I see this as a good thing by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While we are probably tired of hearing about and how long this case took, I would like to see an outcome. The thing is that SCO never actually lost the case and IBM never truly won. SCO was tied up in bankruptcy and the Novell case and could not proceed. IBM isn't objecting; I think they want to destroy any remnants of SCO. Personally I would like to see happen would be the GPL tested in a case so any FUD by SCO is rejected in a ruling. Most likely SCO is likely to lose on summary judgement and the GPL issues never go to trial.

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    1. Re:I see this as a good thing by Billly+Gates · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Speak for yourself. Years ago when this same case was going on I had a client implement a no GNU policy and we replaced all our Linux systems with Windows and paid the $699 per core SCO licensing fee for Linux.

      The lawyers were all over this. As a result the developers were forbidden to use GNU as it could infringe on someone elses property and it the arguments were like reading the troll posts from Slashdot.

      The more this shit hits the headlines in places like CIOmag or InfoWorld.com the stronger the argument agaisnt' GNU and Linux.

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    2. Re: I see this as a good thing by jotaeleemeese · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In the real world pretty much every major company continued using Linux and most startups, some now household names, got of tge ground thanks to Linux and GPL software.

      My point being that most people have not believed the fud. ..

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    3. Re:I see this as a good thing by icebike · · Score: 5, Interesting

      And where is your company today with Linux? This will once and all end things if it goes to trial.

      That has been claimed before.

      If history is any guide this will NOT end things once and for all. Why would you even suggest such a thing in the absence of any facts indicating this?

      If you follow the money to pay the lawyers, fund discovery, and pay the enormous incidental costs, you will almost surely find that SCO, which has already declared bankruptcy, is getting outside funds, (speculation is from Microsoft), and as long as that money flows there will never be an end to this issue.

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  5. Vampires by Alain+Williams · · Score: 4, Funny

    I always thought that they were mythological, I now have to admit that I was wrong; dead things can come back to try to suck your blood!

  6. Reminds me of Jarndyce v Jarndyce by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_v_Jarndyce

    Would be a great topic for another novel for a modern Dickens.

  7. So if SCO are back by viperidaenz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hope their creditors they shafted when they filed for bankruptcy last time are first in line to get paid, before the new lawyers. (and the old ones, since they were the cause of it)