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SCO Is Undeniably, Reliably Dead (fossforce.com)

Posted by timothy on from the oh-just-you-wait dept.

An anonymous reader writes: On Friday, IBM and SCO filed an agreement with the US district court in Utah to accept a ruling of dismissal of the last remaining claims by SCO against IBM. Says the linked article, in line with our most recent other mentions of the long-due death spiral: This agreement wasn't unexpected, and in fact, came down right on deadline. On February 10, I reported that Judge David Nuffer with the U.S. District Court in Utah had ruled to dismiss a couple of interference claims SCO had filed against IBM, and had ordered both parties to reach an agreement on whether to accept the dismissal by February 26, which was Friday. In all likelihood this is the last we'll ever hear from SCO as its current owner, the California based software company Xinuos which now owns and markets many of SCO's old products, will probably remove what's left of SCO from life support.

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  1. Copyrights did this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And we owe this 30 year court battle over Linux to... copyright law! I'm sure we all feel glad our work is protected by such an efficient and fair system!

  2. Re:Oh shit. by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Use some of it to buy Ms. Pamela Jones a nice scotch.

    If anyone has earned it...

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    Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
  3. Actually not quite over by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 5, Informative

    What SCO agreed to is dismissing remaining motions for summary judgment . This is more IBM agreeing there is no point delaying SCO's option of appealing the motions that went against them. It is still possible that SCO might try one last gasp effort in the appeals court. I am not sure how long they have before they must file such an appeal.

  4. The real question remains by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why aren't Darl Mcbride and his cronies locked up in Club Fed for pump-n-dump scam they perpetuated?

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    ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
  5. Re:In other news, UTF8 still alive and going stron by tlhIngan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    March 2016, still UTF8 errors on /.

    You may not believe it, but /. supported Unicode for probably over 15 years now.

    Its just early abuse by posters destined to misuse it forced the implementation of a whitelist of acceptable UTF-8 characters, which basically are all the printables between 32 through 127. Everything else is effectively stripped. Since UTF-8 uses the high-bit to indicate that the codepoint consists of additional bytes,

    (The Unicode support came as part of Slashdot.jp way back when.).

    If you google for erocS or even 5:erocS, you can try to guess what the Unicode "fun" posters and trolls did that forced the implementation of the whitelist.