On March 22, Judge Ted Stewart, presiding over the SCO v. Novell jury trial, gave the parties a final set of jury instructions, asking for their feedback. The parties have done so, each suggesting tweaks to the wording.
Read more »The Parties Tweak the Jury Instructions in SCO v. Novell
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Week 3, Day 12 in SCO v. Novell - Tolonen, Amadia
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First on the stand yesterday in SCO v. Novell was James Tolonen, who you may recall was Novell's CFO from 1989 to 1998 and was the chief business executive who provided direction for the APA and Amendment 2.
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Andrew Tridgell: How to Read and Avoid a Patent
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Andrew Tridgell discusses why reading patents is usually a good idea, how to read a patent, and how to build a solid defence. Tridgell also suggests how free software could scare off patent holders.
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Week 3, Day 11 SCO v. Novell - SCO Rests, Novell Begins with LaSala
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Today, SCO rested its case, such as it is. I can't believe they were eager to go to court with just this. I haven't seen any evidence that they own the copyrights. Just memories through the mists of time that some folks thought they were supposed to get them.
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APA's "Included Assets" Did Not List SVR4.2 - Research Project
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A reader asks a question I can't answer, but maybe some of you can. In reading the APA [PDF], he noticed something odd. The schedule of "included assets", Schedule 1.1(a), doesn't include UNIX SVR4.2. Can you take a look with me? I'll show you what I've found so far.
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SCO vs. Linux: The jury has been informed
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The second week in the trial between the SCO Group and Novell about the copyright to Unix has uncovered further surprising details of this never-ending story
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Week 2, Day 10 of SCO v. Novell - Chris Stone, O'Gara, Maciaszek, Nagle
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Friday at the jury trial of SCO v. Novell, Chris Stone testified, and despite valiant efforts by SCO's Stuart Singer to make the phone call with Maureen O'Gara seem somehow scandalous, he handled himself professionally and apparently made the her allegations look inacccurate at best. He testified that he didn't tell her Novell was issuing a press release. She already knew.
Read more »Making a copyright system that works
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Here's a synthesis of a few prominent ideas of what real copyright reform might look like.
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The Tortoise and the Hare
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The paper explains how computer software is protected and the relationship between open source software and copyright.
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Week 2, Day 9 of SCO v. Novell Trial - Jury Hears About Kimball's Rulings
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Chris Brown's first report of the day is in, filed by phone during an extended break in the court session. The jury got to hear today about Judge Dale Kimball's earlier court rulings. We have all the important rulings in a new, special section on Groklaw's Novell Timeline page, so you can follow along.
Read more »SCO's Motion to Allow Testimony
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Yesterday, there was a sidebar discussion about allowing in material regarding why customers chose not to sign up for SCOsource. The judge found a case that he thought was definitive, so it was not allowed in. Today, SCO has filed a motion to allow the testimony that the judge ruled inadmissible, and there is also a letter from Brent Hatch, with the testimony SCO wishes to show the jury attached.
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Novell Anticipates Objections to SCO's Experts' Testimonies - The TK-7 Case
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Novell anticipates certain questions SCO is likely to ask two of its experts, and rather than having long sidebars, which the judge has already said he doesn't like, they have filed objections they figure they'll be raising, along with a new case that supports their position, TK-7 Corp. v. Estate of Barbouti. This way things can be hashed out in advance.
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On the fall and rise of the GNU GPL
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In preparation for my presentation at OSBC tomorrow I’ve been looking back at some of the key trends that influenced the commercial open source landscape in 2009. One of those is the decline in the use of the GNU GPL as a proportion of all open source projects.
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Squeak 4.0 released - now under MIT/Apache license
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Four years of collecting agreements from numerous contributors has allowed the Squeak Smalltalk environment to be re-licensed as MIT/Apache code
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Week 2, Day 7 of SCO v. Novell Trial - More McBride and Botosan Opens a Door
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Chris Brown was in the courtroom for us today. It was all Darl McBride today, and there also was some sparring over SCO expert, Christine Botosan, he reports. It looks like the jury will be hearing about Judge Dale Kimball's ruling after all, because Novell intends to ask her about what happened to the stock when he issued his rulings. And there will be more Darl tomorrow.
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