A few days ago, amid great victory to Linux, we dared to argue that UNIX copyrights in Novell’s hands are a worrisome business.

Fans of open-source software are breathing easier after a ruling reduced the legal threats against their most pervasive product, the Linux operating system.

The SCO Group Inc. acknowledged being dealt a significant blow Friday in its lawsuit against Novell Inc. but it indicated that it may not be done fighting yet.

SCO and Novell have jointly filed their Status Report [PDF], in which they answer the judge's question as to what they believe is the effect of his August 10th Memorandum Decision and Order. What's left for the trial? They've talked it over, and they don't agree.

If you go back to the press conferences that SCO repeatedly called back in 2003 and 2004, they never began those press conferences by making the standard disclaimers cautioning investors to take what they were saying with a grain of salt. As a consequence, investors had every right to take what Darl McBride and Chris Sontag were saying in public back then as the gospel truth.

A University of Tennessee student asks to have an RIAA subpoena seeking his name, addresses, phone number, e-mail address, and MAC address quashed. His argument: the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act bars the school from releasing the data without his or his parents' permission.

One of the frustrations of lawyers serving the open source industry is that they have few cases which interpret open source licenses. As Eben Moglen has pointed out, such cases are few because licensees need the license be in effect to avoid copyright infringement.

SCO's one motion in limine [PDF] it has filed so far is a remarkable one. It would like the court to order Novell, its representatives and its witnesses not to speak about the IBM litigation or any commentary about it to the jury. "Commentary" would be us Groklaw chickens and, SCO claims, "other similar websites".