Diary of a Network Geek

The trials and tribulations of a Certified Novell Engineer who's been stranded in Houston, Texas.

2/15/2005

SCO Scolded

Filed under: Criticism, Marginalia, and Notes,Geek Work,Linux,News and Current Events — Posted by the Network Geek during the Hour of the Hare which is in the early morning or 7:02 am for you boring, normal people.
The moon is Waxing Gibbous

Man, I should work for the Chicago Sun Times.
Well, thanks to an article, or entry, or whatever, over at Slashdot last week, I have a new post about SCO. Been a long time since we’ve heard much about them, hasn’t it? Well, there’s a reason. According to this summation of a News.com story on Slashdot, a judge was very critical of SCO’s alleged “proof” that they had copyrights being infringed upon by the OpenSource Linux. To quote the quote they quoted, “… it is astonishing that SCO has not offered any competent evidence to create a disputed fact regarding whether IBM has infringed SCO’s alleged copyrights through IBM’s Linux activities”. Yeah! So there! Of course, those of us who have been following this case at all already knew that SCO’s case was thin at best, but still, it’s nice to know the judge hearing the case agrees with us. I, at least, take comfort in the fact that I can spot blindingly obvious legal facts when I see them.
Damn, I should’ve gone to law school.


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