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The SCO Vs IBM Zombie Shambles On (uscourts.gov)
Long-time Slashdot reader UncleJosh writes:
At the end of last October, the 10th Circuit issued an opinion overturning the lower court's summary judgement in favor of IBM on one of SCO's claims, sending it back to the lower court for trial. Shortly thereafter, IBM filed for a re-hearing en banc. On January 2nd, the 10th circuit essentially denied IBM's request, issuing a slightly revised opinion with the same conclusions and result.
The charge being reheard accuses IBM of "stealing and improperly using [SCO's] source code to strengthen its own operating system, thereby committing the tort of unfair competition by means of misappropriation" -- though that charged is based on an implied duty that SCO says IBM incurred by entering into a development relationship with SCO. "SCO believes that IBM merely pretended to go along with the arrangement in order to gain access to Santa Cruz's coveted source code."
The court's 46-page document adds that "We are now almost fifteen years into this litigation."
The charge being reheard accuses IBM of "stealing and improperly using [SCO's] source code to strengthen its own operating system, thereby committing the tort of unfair competition by means of misappropriation" -- though that charged is based on an implied duty that SCO says IBM incurred by entering into a development relationship with SCO. "SCO believes that IBM merely pretended to go along with the arrangement in order to gain access to Santa Cruz's coveted source code."
The court's 46-page document adds that "We are now almost fifteen years into this litigation."
That's for vampires. Zombies require a headshot.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Oh SCO died of bankerupcy long ago. The last thing they did was sell off the right to sue to lawyers and promptly shat the bed and died.
Frusturatingly for IBM, the one claim that stuck was that SCO owed IBM a *lot* of money, but instead of the handing over that money they spent it all on lawyers refiling again and again until there was nothing left for IBM to claim.
Which ought be completely illegal, but apparently it is not.
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
Years of this litigation were documented at https://www.groklaw.net/. The trustee is Edward Cahn.
http://www.groklaw.net/article...
If you are serious when you say that "Finland was a WW2 ally of Hitler" and "they fought against the USSR" as if there would have been anything wrong about those actions, then you know nothing true about WW2 and all that you know comes only from deceitful propaganda written by those who have won the war.
USSR was as guilty for starting WW2 as those who are usually incriminated by UK & USA, i.e. Hitler, Mussolini & Japan.
During the first 2 years of WW2, while Germany was occupying many of its neighbors, USSR was doing exactly the same, occupying the Baltic countries and parts of Poland, Finland and Romania.
Moreover the Russian occupation was far more oppressive than the German occupation, because a large part of the civilian population from the occupied zones was sent to work camps in Siberia, where some were murdered and many others have died from diseases caused by cold and hard work. Very few have succeeded to return.
These are facts that I know directly, having 2 grand-grandfathers murdered by the Russians in 1940, one because he was a school teacher in a village school and the other because he had an insignificant function in the local public administration of the village, but nonetheless, both were distinguishable from the majority who were peasants and any such people were the first to be sent in Siberia to die there.
The people of USA, UK & Western Europe have bought their freedom after WW2 not with their own money, but with the money of the people of Eastern Europe, who were offered to the Russians to be robbed, for the alliance between USA, UK & USSR to be able to defeat Germany & Japan.
Finland and Romania who were previously victims of the Russian aggression, have tried to use the war between Germany and USSR as an opportunity to recover their own territories from the Russian occupation.
Of course they failed because they did not foresee that USA will enter WW2 and change the balance of power.
So the Russians kept after WW2 the occupied territories and their propaganda continues until now to claim that whoever tried to protect their properties and the life of their relatives against the Russian invaders were fascists, "Hitler allies" and so on.
If your profession is to spread Russian propaganda, e.g. about Finland being guilty of having been a "Hitler ally", then good for you.
But if you sincerely believe such junk, I can only pity you.