[vox] [fwd] adverse trial court ruling against SCO

Brian Lavender brian at brie.com
Fri Jun 11 16:49:41 PDT 2010


So is SCO finally dead? 

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 04:15:10PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> I admit I haven't looked at the links yet, but I trust Christian knows
> what he's talking about ;)  Seen on SF-LUG's list:
> 
> -bill!
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Christian Einfeldt -----
> 
> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:53:58 -0700
> From: Christian Einfeldt
> Subject: [sf-lug] adverse trial court ruling against SCO
> 
>    Microsoft's proxy in its battle against Linux, SCO, receives an adverse
>    ruling in the federal trial court:
>    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/11/sco_novell/
>    For a quick and dirty summary of the end phase of the case, go to SCO's
>    wikipedia page:
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group#2010
>    Microsoft and the Linux community have no common ground.  To the extent
>    that Microsoft wins, we lose.  To the extent that we win, Microsoft loses.
>     That axiom might not always be true into the future, but it is true
>    today.  Today, Microsoft lost.  Today, we won a small battle. 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> -- 
> -bill!
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