SCO har tapt

SCO har i kveld tapt rettssaken mot IBM. Groklaw skriver at dommer Kimball har fastslått at SCO ikke eier rettighetene til UNIX eller UnixWare. Dermed kan de heller ikke fortsette saken mot IBM og Sequent, det er opp til Novell å beordre SCO til å droppe disse søksmålene. Det kan fortsatt ta litt tid til hele saken formelt er ferdig, men i praksis var dette siste spiker i kista.

SCO sin aksje utviklet seg faktisk positivt i hele dag, de av oss med litt skadefryd kan glede seg til markedet åpner kl 9:30 (15:30 norsk tid) på mandag ;)

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rocknrolf77

På tide at sånne iglefirmaer havner i grava. De sprella hardt på slutten, men endelig er det over. Det vises gang på gang at det funker ikke å saksøke i hytt å pine i sånne saker for å tjene penger. Heldigvis :)

terjejh

DesktopLinux.com har en interessant oppfølging, der de mener at også Sun synes å mangle de Unix-IP rettigheter meningen var å kjøpe fra SCO for Solaris og OpenSolaris. Her et utdrag ........

The court also decided that SCO owes Novell at least some of the money it made from its Sun and Microsoft licensing deals. That should wipe out SCO's cash reserves nicely.

With Novell now firmly in charge of SCO's, excuse me, Novell's Unix and UnixWare IP, SCO's Unix business is now road kill. The only real question I have at this point is, "When will SCO's bankruptcy proceedings start?"

SCO's Unix reseller partners should now run, not walk, to become Linux resellers. If you're stuck with supporting SCO UnixWare and OpenServer, it would be wise to visit Novell PartnerNet, say by the next business day, and start talking partnership.

Then, there's Sun. At one time, Sun was an SCO supporter. That was back in the day when Sun was in one of its "We hate Linux" phases. Sun's Jonathan Schwartz -- then Sun VP of software and today Sun's president and CEO -- said in 2003 that Sun had bought "rights equivalent to ownership" to Unix.

SCO agreed. In 2005, SCO CEO Darl McBride said that SCO had no problem with Sun open-sourcing Unix code in what would become OpenSolaris. "We have seen what Sun plans to do with OpenSolaris and we have no problem with it," McBride said. "What they're doing protects our Unix intellectual property rights."

Sun now has a little problem, which might become a giant one: SCO never had any Unix IP to sell. Therefore, it seems likely that Solaris and OpenSolaris contains Novell's Unix IP. Whoops! Mr. Schwartz, I'd suggest calling Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian real soon now. Oh, and Mr. Schwartz, when I saw Hovsepian last Wednesday night, I believe he said he was going home for the weekend. Under the circumstances, I'm sure he wouldn't mind you calling him at home.

Microsoft, of course, has also helped SCO out. The Windows giant bought a Unix license it almost certainly didn't need and Microsoft executives convinced BayStar Capital to waste -- or was that invest? -- $50 million on SCO. That deal eventually blew up in everyone's face, but SCO got some much-needed capital.

Since Microsoft and Novell are on good terms at the moment, Microsoft appears to have gotten away clean. On the other hand, I wonder whether, when Microsoft and Novell partnered up in November, the company already realized that Microsoft was the one that needed IP protection from Novell.

Oh, and Microsoft, given SCO's example with what happens to companies that start court cases on the foggiest of IP claims, I'd shut up now about your even more vague patent claims. Consider this a word to the wise.

Finally, there are SCO's stock owners. What can I say except, "You poor dumb jerks." It's over.

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ak

Det er et problem med disse artiklene som har blitt påpekt andre steder: SCO saken handler om copyright, Microsoft rasler med patenter.

Begge deler kan sorteres inn under begrepet "intellectual property", men SCO saken fungerer IKKE som presedens i forhold til de truslene som Microsoft har fremsatt.

terjejh

Microsoft ble omtalt, men jeg forsto det ikke slik at artikkelen hverken skilte eller blandet patenter og coyright. Det synes fortsatt interessant hva som skjer videre og kommer fram mht Sun OpenSolaris lisensen og Novell's avklarte Unix copyright/IP rettigheter, er det ikke?

ak

Boom. Der gikk aksjekursen ned med 70%,

edit: 76 %

ak

SCOX har klatret fra 0.40 per aksje til 0.72 (som fortsatt er under sperregrensen på 1.00), en del takket være McBrides planer om å anke den tidligere avgjørelsen at SCO ikke eier rettighetene til UNIX.

De som mister sparepengene sine nå får absolutt som fortjent :)

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