This week on The Linux Action Show! Rumor has it: The Big Novell Purchase was JUST aproved we discuss what this means for Linux!
Read more »Goodbye Novell
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Week 2, Day 6 of SCO v. Novell Trial - The Mistrial Motion, Kim Madsen
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Chris Brown attended the jury trial today for us in SCO v. Novell, and he has the details about the mistrial motion, the denial of the motion to allow evidence, and there was testimony today from Kim Madsen and Darl McBride and a deposition played of Steven Sabbath. The mistrial was related to the denial of Novell's motion to allow evidence.
Read more »Novell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari - as text
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We have the Novell's Petition for a Writ of Ceriorari [PDF] as text. This is its petition, asking the US Supreme Court to review the decision by the US Court of the Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Odds are always against the petitioner to the U.S. Supreme Court, of course, and the earliest it could be heard would be in April, we learned from a remark at Friday's trial in SCO v.
Read more »Day 5 of the SCO v. Novell Trial and Some Help for Journalists Covering the Trial
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Our reporter in the courtroom today has sent his first dispatch. More to come. He had a pleasant chat with Tom Harvey of the Salt Lake Tribune.
Read more »Day 4 of the Trial in SCO v. Novell - and Novell's Petition for Certiorari
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They played videos in court today, day 4 of SCO v. Novell's jury trial. SCO claims it has a surprise witness, like that surprises anyone that has been following SCO's legal ways. There was a dispute about that, but I gather it will happen eventually.
Read more »More Back-and-Forth on Proposed Jury Instructions/Verdict Forms in SCO v. Novell
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The parties are still going back and forth over pre-trial issues, specifically over the jury instructions and the verdict form. We may see even more on this, because jury instruction and the verdict form come at the very end, so there is still time to try to get it just right. Not that either side will be entirely happy with the result.
Read more »SCO vs. Linux: The trial can begin
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The bankruptcy court dealing with the SCO Group has approved a loan from a group of investors. This means that the company now has sufficient funds for the pending jury trial against Novell.
Read more »Jeff Jaffe now W3C CEO
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Ex-Novell CTO, Jeff Jaffe, is now CEO of the web standards organisation
Read more »Moonlight's Olympic-sized failure
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Microsoft only produces the Silverlight runtime for Windows and OS X, leaving Linux support to Novell's Mono project, which produces Moonlight. Mono developers argue that Mono is not chasing tail lights, but in the case of Moonlight it very clearly is.
Read more »Novell Never Mentioned UnixWare in its press releases in 2003
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SCO's Chapter 11 Trustee Edward Cahn bragged at Friday's bankruptcy hearing that he had won all the Daubert motions and most of the motions in limine in Utah.
Read more »Novell Should Stop Sponsoring the BSA, Which Lobbies Against Free Software in Vietnam
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Novell supports the BSA et al, thus harming some of its own interests as an arguably "open source" (or "mixed source") company
Read more »Analyst Expects Microsoft Bid to Buy Novell
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Richard Williams from Cross Research believes that Microsoft or even its ally SAP might attempt to buy Novell for approximately $2 billion
Read more »Novell Objects to Yarro's Proposed Loan to SCO
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I'm sure this was expected. Novell opposes SCO's Trustee's Motion for PostPetition Financing to essentially have Ralph Yarro and unnamed others provide SCO a loan to keep the corpse breathing long enough to make it through trial, I suppose, and I expect we may see more oppositions filed...
Read more »Dear Judge Stewart: A Schedule for Briefing Novell's Request for Judicial Notice
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Novell's Sterling A. Brennan of Workman Nydegger has sent a letter to Judge Stewart, asking for the opportunity to brief the issue of their Request for Judicial Notice. This letter was sent after yesterday's conference was over, and the judge has already granted the request. I know. I am too exhausted to think, after yesterday, but, to paraphrase F.
Read more »Novell is Already Poisoning MeeGo With Microsoft Trojan Horses
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Mono employees are already trying to put .NET inside a GNU/Linux platform that was announced over a week ago
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