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SCO Just Won't Quit

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Linux-Watch; By Steven J. Vaughan Nichols
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SCO may have lost a major legal battle with Novell, but it refuses to admit that it may have lost its Linux IP war. When the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City ruled that Novell, and not SCO, owned Unix's intellectual property, many SCO watchers assumed that it was game over for SCO's long war against Linux and the companies--Novell, IBM and Red Hat--that supported it. Never one to stay down for long, despite numerous setbacks, SCO CEO Daryl McBride insisted in a letter to SCO's partners and customers that it's not down for the count.

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"As a matter of law, the court concludes that SCO breached its fiduciary duties to Novell by failing to account for and remit the appropriate SVRX Royalty payments to Novell for the SVRX portions of the 2003 Sun and Microsoft Agreements," - Judge Kimball

It's simple. As soon as SCO admits defeat, the trucks will be backing up to the front doors. When that happens, could we please try not to be overly gleeful? Many of the SCO employees probably did nothing worse than respond to the wrong job listing in the classifieds.
Quoting:Many of the SCO employees probably did nothing worse than respond to the wrong job listing in the classifieds.


This is the point at which the whole sordid affair affects real people and their lives. One has to feel sorry for those employees of SCO, who simply wanted a Job where they could do the sort of things they enjoy doing and get paid for it.
tracyanne, I assume you are not including Daryl in your definition of "those employees of SCO, who simply wanted a Job where they could do the sort of things they enjoy doing and get paid for it".
Quoting:I assume you are not including Daryl


Nor, in all probability a large section of the management.

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