Comments on: SCOicide – The SCO Group vs the World http://madhatter.ca/2010/03/11/scoicide-the-sco-group-vs-the-world/ Through the Looking Glass Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:14:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Mad Hatter http://madhatter.ca/2010/03/11/scoicide-the-sco-group-vs-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-357 The Mad Hatter Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:53:25 +0000 http://madhatter.ca/2010/03/08/scoicide-the-sco-group-vs-the-world/#comment-357 Slap Dash? Totally stupid seems a better description. Attacking one of the largest companies in the world with NO PROOF to back your assertion, well, it's SCOicide. As to the jury, I think that they will get it. When things are spelled out it's pretty obvious. Slap Dash? Totally stupid seems a better description. Attacking one of the largest companies in the world with NO PROOF to back your assertion, well, it’s SCOicide.

As to the jury, I think that they will get it. When things are spelled out it’s pretty obvious.

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]]> By: Greg http://madhatter.ca/2010/03/11/scoicide-the-sco-group-vs-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-354 Greg Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:50:12 +0000 http://madhatter.ca/2010/03/08/scoicide-the-sco-group-vs-the-world/#comment-354 I'll second that thanks. Also all the support people who have helped, including those who have contributed to transcribing all the Comes documents, and those intrepid reporters who have attended all the court proceedings, and kept us updated. I've wondered about the "due diligence" that was performed before Caldera bought SCO. It seems to this non-lawyer that if you expected copyrights from a seller and you didn't get them, you go after the company that sold you the bill of goods. That would have been Caldera going after Santa Cruz Operation. Santa Cruz Operation would then go after Novell. I suppose the only thing SCO has in it's favor is that the copyright registrations were in Santa Cruz Operation's possession. But when a witness says he thought copyrights were transfered, then later says patents were not transfered, because he read it in a document, and that document is the same one that says copyrights are not transfered in the line above, one begins to question the sanity of the whole proceeding. The whole thing seemed slap dash to me, from the initial point where they begin a five billion dollar lawsuit, but didn't have their ducks lined up. They were committing potentially millions of dollars if their target didn't roll over and buy them out. I don't know about you but anytime I've had contact with a lawyer, it hasn't been cheap. They seem to have a shoot from the hip, fancy deal mentality that ran into a brick wall. What concerns me is it seems to take about three years to educate someone that SCO has not a leg to stand on, yet Novell is tasked with educating a jury in fifteen days. I’ll second that thanks. Also all the support people who have helped, including those who have contributed to transcribing all the Comes documents, and those intrepid reporters who have attended all the court proceedings, and kept us updated.

I’ve wondered about the “due diligence” that was performed before Caldera bought SCO. It seems to this non-lawyer that if you expected copyrights from a seller and you didn’t get them, you go after the company that sold you the bill of goods. That would have been Caldera going after Santa Cruz Operation. Santa Cruz Operation would then go after Novell. I suppose the only thing SCO has in it’s favor is that the copyright registrations were in Santa Cruz Operation’s possession. But when a witness says he thought copyrights were transfered, then later says patents were not transfered, because he read it in a document, and that document is the same one that says copyrights are not transfered in the line above, one begins to question the sanity of the whole proceeding.

The whole thing seemed slap dash to me, from the initial point where they begin a five billion dollar lawsuit, but didn’t have their ducks lined up. They were committing potentially millions of dollars if their target didn’t roll over and buy them out.

I don’t know about you but anytime I’ve had contact with a lawyer, it hasn’t been cheap.

They seem to have a shoot from the hip, fancy deal mentality that ran into a brick wall.

What concerns me is it seems to take about three years to educate someone that SCO has not a leg to stand on, yet Novell is tasked with educating a jury in fifteen days.

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]]> By: Latest SCO-Novell Drama in a Nutshell | Boycott Novell http://madhatter.ca/2010/03/11/scoicide-the-sco-group-vs-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Latest SCO-Novell Drama in a Nutshell | Boycott Novell Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:37:49 +0000 http://madhatter.ca/2010/03/08/scoicide-the-sco-group-vs-the-world/#comment-353 [...] reader The Mad Hatter writes some more about the SCO case, calling it “SCOicide”. Due to the interest in the case, Judge Kimbell told both [...] [...] reader The Mad Hatter writes some more about the SCO case, calling it “SCOicide”. Due to the interest in the case, Judge Kimbell told both [...]

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