On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Richard Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/9/2010 3:56 AM, Stuart Jansen wrote: >>> It's amazing how slowly the legal system works. By the way, how was it >>> decided that this should be a jury trial instead of just a judge? >>> >> No idea. I stopped paying much attention years ago, until a few weeks >> ago when I heard the jury trial was about to start at last. > > I've been following all along, basically it was decided by a judge, but > SCO appealed and the appeals court decided that it should have been > decided by a jury. > > Groklaw has the whole history if you want to read every minute detail. > > -Richard Holden
I'm pretty sure the whole 5 years issue is an example of how the legal system doesn't work. I'm not precisely sure how a jury trial is supposed to change the facts of a simple licensing contract. This should be done and dead. . . . Of course now Novell is on the block for $2 billion so we can go through this all over again. Apparently Novell has $990 million in cash and the company itself is worth less than that. Someone needs to start a campaign to public domain any copyrights for System V and such, and see if they still want to buy http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/elliott_denies_novell_asset_sale/ -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
