“Three and a half years after launching a high-profile legal attack on Linux, The SCO Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. …the company’s legal case was dealt a crushing blow in August, when the federal judge overseeing its case, Dale Kimball, concluded “that Novell is the owner of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights.” Presumably the law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, which was pursuing SCO’s ambitious anti-Linux claims on contingency, has had to scale back its expectations of a payday (Stephen Shankland, CNet, Sept. 14). Earlier: Nov. 6, 2003, Nov. 13, 2004. More: Roger Parloff, Fortune “Legal Pad”.
Update: “SCO Group files for bankruptcy protection”
“Three and a half years after launching a high-profile legal attack on Linux, The SCO Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. …the company’s legal case was dealt a crushing blow in August, when the federal judge overseeing its case, Dale Kimball, concluded “that Novell is the owner of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights.” […]
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