Judge Rejects SCO's Motion For a New Trial 168
An anonymous reader writes "A judge has rejected SCO's motion for a new trial in the company's dispute over UNIX intellectual property ownership. The ruling validates a verdict that was issued in April by a jury who determined that Novell, and not SCO, is the rightful owner of the UNIX SVRX copyrights. This means SCO cannot continue to pursue its litigation against IBM and other Linux users. 'There was substantial evidence that Novell made an intentional decision to retain ownership of the copyrights,' the judge wrote in his decision. 'The Court finds that the verdict is not clearly, decidedly, or overwhelmingly against the weight of the evidence. Therefore, SCO is not entitled to a new trial.'"
Re:Good. (Score:5, Funny)
I really hope this is the last I ever have to hear about SCO.
Well, just remember that you can't spell scourge of the earth without SCO
Cue Monty Python plague victim (Score:5, Funny)
Disappointing news (Score:5, Funny)
I hate it when my favorite show doesn't get renewed for another season.
SCO files new lawsuits against IBM, Oracle, God (Score:4, Funny)
San Jose, CALIFORNIA. In response to a judge's dismissal of it's demands for a new trial today, SCO filed 10,000 new lawsuits against various entities including IBM, Oracle, and G-d. "One of these must stick," said SCO's Chief Extortion Officer. "It's not about principle. It's about being money-grubbing assholes."
Re:Cue Monty Python plague victim (Score:5, Funny)
It's only a flesh wound...
Re:SCO files new lawsuits against IBM, Oracle, God (Score:3, Funny)
In the year 3012.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good. (Score:5, Funny)
I really hope this is the last I ever have to hear about SCO.
Well, just remember that you can't spell scourge of the earth without SCO
You can't spell breakfast scones either. Or scotland yard.
Go Courts! (Score:5, Funny)
That got cleared up so quickly and easily, I'm impressed!
tips on destroying zombie companies (Score:5, Funny)
1. Remember that cutting off the legal arms does no good.
2. Remember that zombie companies can continue to be threatening even if they have no leg to stand on.
3. Exposing and severing the connection between the brain and the rest of the corporate body may help, but the remaining parts can still remain dangerous, and typically twitch for some time.
4. Corporate zombies are often controlled by evil overlords. Real victory occurs only after the evil overlord is slain.
5. Remember that anything that was once good and lovable about the company that has been zombified is long gone and completely unrecoverable.
6. Zombie companies are frequently covered in parasites (lawyers).
Re:Good. (Score:5, Funny)
Or scrotum.
Just putting it out there. The word.
Re:Good. (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, SCO helps spell MOSCOW!
In the rest of the world, SCO spells the answer to "What smells bad and spends forever circling the rim after you flush?"
SCO - the 7-Year Flush! That's a LOT of crap!
Re:kill it (Score:5, Funny)
"Will someone please squash this bug please."
Better yet, warm up your arm and be the first one to throw your best shot! Mulligans are allowed. My favorite McBride quote from a CRN Interview [crn.com]:
"
CRN: This lawsuit is very unpopular among many in the open-source community.
McBride: We're either right or we're not. If we're wrong, we deserve people throwing rocks at us..."
Re:Groklaw link (Score:5, Funny)
One copy of SCO UnixWare is bad enough. You want to create a fork of it as well?!?!?!?!?
Re:kill it (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Groklaw link (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, so indeed did I. Not just read. I joined, commented, contributed cash, believed the hype, thought I was helping, proofed, supplied corrections blah, blah. Then saw the insidious, and frankly ugly, nature of the moderation system, plus I couldn't quite reconcile the "open source" rhetoric on the site with the "This is my space, agree with me completely or fuck off" Oh yes, and the attack dogs. Jeez, disagree & you'd be jelly in a blender. "You dare impugn the God that is Pamela Jones? I will hunt down your children"
I didn't know Pam invented Wikipedia.
Re:Good. (Score:1, Funny)
If you want to be sure, you have to nuke from orbit.