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The SCO vs IBM Zombie Shambles On
- briffle 9y agoNot sure if I'm more surprised to see an article about SCO vs IBM, or a link to Slashdot. Either way, I feel like were back in 2003 again..
- kirillkh 9y agoScore: 5, Funny
- johannes1234321 9y agoCowboy Neal is not amused
- justherefortart 9y agoFrist P0st. I remember the great UID reset of 1999. Waited a few weeks because I thought cred based on low UID was stupid. RIP Slashdot.org
- askvictor 9y agoThe article quality on Slashdot seems to be better recently, presumably due to the most recent owners. Don't bother with the comments though.
- BuffaloBagel 9y agoImagine a Beowolf cluster of SCO lawyers.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoExcept that nobody believes SCO's male cow droppings any more. And, in fact, if I understand the current state of play of this suit, Linux is no longer under threat. Linux is completely in the clear. The one remaining issue is a contract one between SCO and IBM over Project Monterrey. (Also, I bet the comments here will be, on average, better than those on Slashdot...)
- philwelch 9y agoIt makes sense though, right? Slashdot has always been the go-to source about SCO vs. IBM.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoNot always. Groklaw was the definitive source, until PJ shut it down.
- philwelch 9y agoAnd when there was a breakthrough, Groklaw would hit the top of Slashdot, so I never had to go to Groklaw specifically :)
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoOK, but which comments did you read, Slashdot's or Groklaw's? (Groklaw's comments were miles above Slashdot's.)
- reaperducer 9y agoSometimes there are lawsuits between deep-pocketed entities that get dragged on and on by lawyers and law firms so they can have steady income. The suits get passed from one generation of lawyers to the next as a sort of perverse inheritance. Such was the case in FCC vs RKO Broadcasting. Eventually it bled RKO dry and it no longer exists, since the FCC has virtually unlimited funds. You have to wonder if that's what's happening here.
- andybak 9y agoJarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, over the course of time, become so complicated, that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce
- RandomTisk 9y agoBleak House (BBC 8 episodes) is on Amazon Prime, easily one of my favorite period dramas ever.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoNo. SCO is bankrupt, no income, very little or no funds. Unfortunately, a law firm (BSF, Boies and two other names that I don't remember and won't bother to look up) signed up to handle the case and all appeals for a fixed up-front fee. That law firm is not broke, and is faithfully carrying out its promised duties, no matter how insane the overall effect is.
- TheRealDunkirk 9y agoWell that explains why it won't die. I suppose the contract is such that, if the firm were to throw their hands up, and walk away, SCO could sue the firm itself for the funds they "expected" to get from IBM?
- alyandon 9y agoSo, certainly not a lawyer but does this really mean anything? Isn't summary judgement only for when there are no facts under dispute?
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoIANAL, but I have been following this case for nearly all of it, and I've learned a lot in the process. Summary judgment can happen when there are facts in dispute. It means that, even if you give the other side their claimed facts, they still don't have a valid case, and therefore the whole thing should be thrown out now, before we even bother trying to figure out what the real facts are.
- alyandon 9y agoAh, that makes sense - thanks.
- raverbashing 9y agoI wonder who's paying for SCOs lawyers after all this time
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- chris_wot 9y agoJardine v. Jardine for the modern economy.
- DougN7 9y agoIt seems to me that some view the blockchain as free and permanent digital storage. That’s a problem.
- DougN7 9y agoWhoops, this comment got attached to the wrong post. Sorry :(