Practical Technology

L Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah finally granted Novell’s request for declaratory judgment and ruled against SCO‘s last frantic attempts to keep any of its claims going. Or, to quote Pamela Jones, editor of Groklaw and top expert on SCO’s endless anti-Linux lawsuits: "The door has slammed shut on [...]

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Ding dong! The SCO is dead. Which old SCO? The wicked SCO! Ding dong! The wicked SCO is dead! It’s true. After just more than seven years of SCO lawsuits, SCO has lost its last real chance of causing Linux and the companies that support it — IBM; Novell, and Red Hat — any real [...]

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I’ve given up on predicting when the zombie movie series staring the undead SCO monster is finally going to stay quietly in its grave Still, this week a jury is deciding whether SCO or Novell owns Unix’s intellectual property rights. You may have thought that this was settled. Most of us who followed SCO certainly [...]

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Shame on me. I was sure that when SCO fired anti-Linux zealot and CEO Darl McBride, that Edward Cahn, the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Court Trustee would kill off SCO’s IBM lawsuit as a waste of money for a company that’s been bleeding red-ink for years. I was wrong. According to a Salt Lake Tribune report, [...]

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No one has taken SCO’s lawsuits against Linux-using companies seriously for years, but somehow or the other SCO kept hanging on like a bad cold that you couldn’t quite shake. The main reason for this was that SCO CEO Darl McBride doesn’t know the meaning of surrender. Time after time, McBride would come up with [...]

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