SCO v. Novell Goes to Trial Today In Utah

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The day many have been waiting for has finally arrived, the day SCO gets torn apart in court by Novell. Each side gets 10 hours, and Novell managed to get them to agree to a stipulation (PDF) that should make things go a lot faster. With any luck, we will soon have an official ruling that SCO does not own much of anything and then we just have to wait for SCO to exhaust its appeals. This would've been over a long time ago, but SCO filed for bankruptcy on the eve of trial, stopping the clock. One can only wonder what trick they will try to pull this time."

Move over Chewbacca... her comes the OS X defense

[Anonymous Coward]

OS X is Unix, but Linux is not Unix! That does not make any sense!

McBride and Yarro to do the perp walk?

[the saltydog]

That's what *I'm* waiting for.

They called me a criminal for using Linux.

I'm calling them criminals for running an extortion/stock pump and dump/fraud scheme.

They were wrong. I'm not. When will the SEC finally put these all hat, no cattle rustlers behind bars?

Oh, and by the way, if you had the UNIX copyrights, why did you insist on asking Novell for them - repeatedly?

Bunch of lying scumbag bastard pricks - every single supporter of this fiaSCO. (Yes, that includes you, too, Rudy de Haas. Fucking asshat.)

Re:Why do people continue to give them money?

[Jason Levine]

Maybe it's like those folks who fall for the Nigerian schemes. Once you're in you can either admit that you've been scammed and have lost thousands of dollars or you can ignore all of the blaring warning signs, press on, and construct an elaborate fantasy world to live in where friendly Nigerian e-mailers will be shipping you your pile of cash any day now. The investors, instead of cutting their losses and moving on, are just hoping against hope that some magical evidence fairy will visit SCO overnight, leave proof positive that Linux really is owned by SCO, and all of their sunk money wasn't wasted.

Re:Why do people continue to give them money?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ahem, what [yahoo.com] money [yahoo.com]? All the trades this year seem to be $50,000 and they're going both directions.

Maybe it is something as simple as assets being sold off, generating income for the defunct company? I don't know anything about trading in bankrupt companies, but this was the first idea that I thought of. The other possibility that crossed my mind is shady stock market tricks being played.