I thought it'd be fun to answer SCO's expert report from Dr. Gary Pisano, some more, on one point in particular, namely his inability to find any other reason SCOsource wasn't popular other than Novell's counterclaims to ownership of the code. Here's a list of media reactions, community and mainstream, that may illuminate him.
Read more »Why Folks Didn't Want a SCOsource License: Let Us Count the Reasons
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Just in Time: SCO Finds Another Cash Injection Proposal… from Former SCO Chairman
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The company that just refuses to die suddenly finds a new fountain of cash and Microsoft continues to stifle Free software through infighting and infiltrations
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Can Any Smartphone Survive The Patent Gantlet?
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With the news coming out that the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has agreed to investigate both RIM and Apple over patent claims brought by Kodak, it makes you wonder if we'll soon be able to have any smartphones at all.
Read more »More darts - SCO's opposition to Daubert hearings and to Chatlos, Michels testimony
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Can you believe there's more? Five more, to be exact. SCO has filed two more oppositions to Novell's motions in limine, specifically their motion to exclude testimony from Ed Chatlos, Burt Levine, Kim Madsen, and Doug Michels, and they also filed their opposition to Novell's motions for Daubert hearings to disqualify SCO's experts Christine Botosan, Dr. Gary Pisano, and G.
Read more »Novell and SCO throw legal darts at each other's motions in limine
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It's a plot, I tell you! The parties in SCO v. Novell are trying to cause me to lose my beauty sleep. Before I can finish doing the text of one filing, they file 25 more. Literally. They have filed between them 25 memoranda in opposition to the others' motions in limine. Say. They have finally hit on the way to shut Groklaw up. Just keep filing documents until I give up and go to sleep.
Read more »Looking out for Bilski: software patents v. FOSS
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Users of free and open source software (“FOSS”) have little to gain and much to fear from the patent system. The patent system poses two major threats to users:
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Jacobsen and FOSS Community Win Big in Jacobsen v. Katzer Settlement
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As expected, the Jacobsen case has now settled. The settlement was a complete victory for Jacobsen and is great news for the FOSS community. The Jacobsen case was very significant for the FOSS community because it was the first case in the US about the enforcement of open source software licenses.
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Wakeup Call to Google, Regarding Software Patents
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Addressing the problem of Google's love affair with software patents; news about Yahoo! and Microsoft, as well as its effects on Hadoop
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Multimedia Codecs: The Legal Path
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If the American government invested as many resources rounding up violators of software licenses as it does fighting "terror" (and no, I don't mean the Jacobin variety), I'd have been put away long ago, because all of my Ubuntu systems use patented multimedia software that I didn't pay for. But I've recently realized that it doesn't have to be this way, and that legal codec support is easily ava
Read more »Dr. Gary Pisano's Expert Report for SCO
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Let's correct some facts and assumptions in Dr. Gary Pisano's Expert Report on behalf of SCO in the SCO v. Novell trial, shall we? Why? First, it's fun. Geek fun, granted, but that is who we are. Second, I see what I view as mistakes, and I surely don't want people to be confused or for errors to go down in history unanswered.
Read more »Novell's Motion for Leave to Reply to SCO's Opposition to Motion in Limine # 1
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I told you I thought we'd hear from Novell, and so we have: Novell has filed a motion asking the court's permission to reply to SCO's Opposition to Novell's Motion in Limine No. 1.
Read more »Patents Roundup: IBM Helps Spread Software Patents to India
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A defender of (sometimes lobbyist for) software patents gets itself in trouble after Microsoft settles; company that sues
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Novell's Daubert Motions: We Finally Get to Read 3 of SCO's Experts' Reports
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We finally get to read SCO's experts' reports, three of them, the ones from Dr. Christine A. Botosan, Dr. Gary Pisano, and G. Gervaise Davis III, because Novell has attached them as Exhibit A to each memorandum in support of their three motions for Daubert hearings, seeking to disqualify each expert's testimony. I say finally because the reports were written in 2007.
Read more »SCO's Opposition to Novell's Motion in Limine No. 1: Hey! No Fair, You Guys!
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SCO has filed its response to Novell's Motion in Limine No. 1. And Novell has added another lawyer to the team, Daniel P. Muino. SCO's opposition in essence says, "No fair, Novell! We appealed the copyright ownership issue, and the slander of title is sort of related, and so that should be enough." Here's what I don't see SCO saying...
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LiMo (Linux) Player Sues Microsoft and Apple for Software Patent Violations
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Another pseudo-FOSS company is suing its rivals using software patents, this time targeting Apple and Microsoft
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