Topic: The SCO Group vs IBM - judge takes weed whacker to SCO claims. (Read 17582 times)

Nemesis · « **Reply #20 on:** February 11, 2016, 07:09:16 am »

The judge has ruled on SCOGs remaining claims - they lose IBM wins. There still is the final statement on that to be done by month end and IBM has some counter claims still in play. I suspect IBM will ask to be allowed to drop them without prejudice (so they can relaunch should it be needed) as there is nothing to win from SCOG as they are one thin hair from total death and don't need IBMs help in achieving it.

A long deserved win for the Good Guys.

Javora · « **Reply #21 on:** February 11, 2016, 09:09:31 am »

That was still going 10 years after??!? I had totally forgot about the lawsuit. I thought SCO was dead and buried by now. lol.

EschelonOfJudgemnt · « **Reply #22 on:** February 11, 2016, 06:02:09 pm »

Nemesis · « **Reply #23 on:** February 12, 2016, 10:12:20 pm »

They used first Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (SCO vs Novell was due to start on the Monday and the Bankruptcy began on the Friday) then Chapter 7 Liquidation to slow things down. There should have been perjury charges laid in my opinion due to when Novell wanted a bond set up for if SCOG lost they would get paid because they feared SCOG going into Bankruptcy first and SCOG told the Judge there was no danger of that.

In my opinion this was as much a paid for anti Linux scam as anything else.

Why for example couldn't the judge force public disclosure of the alleged infringing code? It (if it existed) was already in the public view the only thing that wasn't was the claim of ownership by SCOG. The only reason I could see for SCOG to object is that as long as it was in Linux they could fight to get copyright payments from Linux users. That wouldn't be a reason for the courts. Usually in a case like this a major factor is arranging the end of the infringement (if any) but that was always avoided.

The saddest part of this case is that the CEO of SCOG is now the CEO of another apparently healthy company. He failed up, at least until he starts more lawsuits.

Nemesis · « **Reply #24 on:** March 31, 2016, 08:31:57 pm »

I spoke too soon. The SCO Group has launched an appeal. Hopefully it will be declined but then they have higher courts to go to, all the way to the Supreme Court.

Part of me hopes that it does go all the way to the Supreme Court (losing of course) just to make a absolute final YOU LOSE to SCO.

Nemesis · « **Reply #25 on:** July 06, 2026, 06:03:34 pm »

In 2021 the corpse of SCOG settled. Essentially IBM gave them enough money to wind down the company.

Long before SCOG had sold what was left of their Unix business to a company called Xinuos which then moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was explicitly stated publicly at the time (as I recall) that Xinuos had no interests/rights in the lawsuit and could not restart them in its own right. A few years ago there were mumblings that Xinuos WAS restarting them - now they have with IBM as the target.

Ought to be interesting as long ago SCOG got permission to destroy all the business records. Hard to fight a lawsuit with no records and there may be binding commitments about them not getting (or using) the rights to restart the lawsuits.

Interestingly this is just happening as there has been a flurry of news articles about people fleeing Win 11 for Linux. Wonder if they got "investments" or suddenly sold "licences" from the same people as SCOG got when they started the lawsuits?

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