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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."

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  1. Re:ShemaYisrael (IBM tabulate Holocaust to SCO the by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Revisionist History much?

    Romania was not occupied by the USSR until the Soviets made their final push through Europe to Berlin.
    In the early stages of WW2 Romania (a monarchy at the time) was for a short while neutral and then declared alliance with the Nazis. Eastern part of Poland was occupied by the USSR, but what you neglected to mention is that Poland itself occupied Lithuania, part of Ukraine and other territory prior to WW2 as a result of Polish aggression wars shortly after WW1.

    And so on and on and on.

    You are a classic mis-information troll whose "improved" history is supposed to tar whatever boogeyman of the moment is convenient with all the evils of history and those whose dick you are sucking as "saviors of humanity".

    Your "murdered" grand-fathers were probably Polish National Radical Camp Falanga members caught in Lithuania....