wired.com— A Salt Lake City jury on Tuesday ruled against SCO Group's claim it owned the copyright to the Unix operating system, a cousin to the popular open-source OS
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According to Wikipedia, SCO purchased from Novell the rights to administer and support existing UNIX licenses. Novell basically interpreted SCO as a franchisee operator. SCO thought that they also gained the copyrights.
i didn't even know that, I'm the first question I thought was how does a bankrupt company continue to sue? Lawyers aren't cheap, and if they got not cash, who's putting up the cash? I can't see the lawyers doing this pro-bono
The difference is that SCO never had the rights to UNIX and never actually found any Linux code that infringed on UNIX copyrights.Apple actually has had patents granted to it that other companies infringe on, and has a legal right to seek compensation. The USPTO is pretty retarded to have granted some of those patents though.
If a company goes bankrupt, it doesn't always mean they have $0 left. A rather large company can declare bankruptcy and still have tens of millions of dollars.
No, the problem is that the power users are purposely resubmitting popular stories again and again to boost their ratings. No one said anything about non-frontpage stories. Sorry, your attempt in changing what was said didn't work.
swazoApr 1, 2010
Problem?
tinkafooApr 1, 2010
That makes it even worse!
wilhoitmApr 1, 2010
SCO is still around?
ev0lApr 1, 2010
Well it's official SCO, that is a court ordered "eat s**t and die" please find a dark corner and wither away.
gotissues68Apr 2, 2010
This s**t is still going on? SCO is like the stalker ex girlfriend/boyfriend who doesn't know when to give up and get the message.
Closed AccountApr 2, 2010
SCO Unix was awful. We ditched it for Red Hat if that means anything to you.
warpfieldApr 2, 2010
According to Wikipedia, SCO purchased from Novell the rights to administer and support existing UNIX licenses. Novell basically interpreted SCO as a franchisee operator. SCO thought that they also gained the copyrights.
phillaholicApr 2, 2010
The content is still there, fix the algorithm.
anoriginalnameApr 2, 2010
i didn't even know that, I'm the first question I thought was how does a bankrupt company continue to sue? Lawyers aren't cheap, and if they got not cash, who's putting up the cash? I can't see the lawyers doing this pro-bono
heavywaveApr 2, 2010
The content along with tons of worthless s**t yes. If every story gets 10 diggs how do you decide which one to put on FP?
srg13Apr 2, 2010
The difference is that SCO never had the rights to UNIX and never actually found any Linux code that infringed on UNIX copyrights.Apple actually has had patents granted to it that other companies infringe on, and has a legal right to seek compensation. The USPTO is pretty retarded to have granted some of those patents though.
tnoyApr 14, 2010
If a company goes bankrupt, it doesn't always mean they have $0 left. A rather large company can declare bankruptcy and still have tens of millions of dollars.
kentdiegoApr 20, 2010
SCO Xenix was awesome. Back when MS had DOS 5.0 Xenix could do non-blocking multitasking on a 386 with 4 MB of ram.
lilrickyApr 22, 2010
No, the problem is that the power users are purposely resubmitting popular stories again and again to boost their ratings. No one said anything about non-frontpage stories. Sorry, your attempt in changing what was said didn't work.