Decision in the SCO Group vs. Novell Jury trial

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 1 April 2010 02:22, Amanda Yilmaz <ayilmaz-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:


> Why stop now?
>

Because the jury trial was as close as SCO was ever going to get to a
victory and that's now gone. There were quite a few opinions that SCO could
indeed convince a jury that Novell indeed gave them IP rights to Unix. And
even the folks at Groklaw said the SCO lawyers were extremely good and came
close to pulling it off.

But no.

Everything from here on is demonstrably and substantially harder to win. The
chances of SCO's winning have gone from a near coin flip(*) to a very
expensive lottery ticket.

Arguably SCO has been literally going for broke from the moment they first
took on IBM, so "one more lottery ticket" would certainly be a consistent
strategy. But SCO's management situation is different now; the company is
controlled by a trustee with a fiduciary duty to the interests of creditors,
rather than Darl McBride and his band of other-worlders. This means there is
an opportunity for a sane change in direction, though it's far from assured.

- Evan

(*) regardless of what you think is most just or even a slam-dunk, ANYTHING
in front of a jury has an element of coin-toss in it.
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