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SCO: It Lives Again!

John Paczkowski in News on July 8, 2010 at 1:53 pm PT

SCO really gives new meaning to “never say die,” doesn’t it? Predictably, the company is appealing the recent judgment against it in its legal battle with Novell over key Unix copyrights.

SCO to Sponsor Next Season of “The Biggest Loser”

John Paczkowski in News on June 11, 2010 at 9:31 am PT

SCO’s long-running campaign against Linux may have finally been dealt a death blow. Late Thursday, the judge presiding over the company’s legal battle with Novell rejected its request for a new trial and upheld an April jury decision that determined Novell, not SCO, to be the rightful owner of key Unix copyrights.

SCO: We’ll Live to Sue Another Day

John Paczkowski in News on March 30, 2010 at 3:04 pm PT

SCO’s seemingly endless legal campaign over the copyrights to Unix may finally, thankfully, be over. On Tuesday afternoon, a federal jury found that Novell owns the rights to the operating system, foiling SCO’s plans to seek millions of dollars in licensing fees from companies it accused of illegally distributing its proprietary Unix code with the Linux OS.

A Boy Named Sue-Happy

John Paczkowski in News on October 19, 2009 at 9:13 am PT

Looks like Darl McBride, SCO’s “sue-happy cowboy” CEO, has seen his last roundup. In a new 8-K filing with the Security and Exchange Commission, the company reveals that, under the order of a bankruptcy court, it has eliminated the chief executive officer and president positions and consequently sacked McBride.

Die, SCO, Die!

John Paczkowski in News on August 25, 2009 at 9:19 am PT

“There’s No Free Lunch–or Free Linux.” That was the title of SCO CEO Darl McBride’s keynote address at the Computer Digital Expo in Las Vegas back in 2003, and it signaled the start of a long legal siege. Earlier that day, SCO announced plans to file suit against a large-scale user of Linux as part of its campaign against the open-source operating system.