[mdlug] News Flash from Groklaw: Judge Kimball rules

[Wolfger]

The fun thing to look at is the stock value for SCOX. It took a
beating long ago when the case started getting bad press, but now it's
officially a penny stock. Closed Friday at $1.55 and opened this
morning at $0.45
That's a pretty staggering "overnight" drop. I'm sure the stockholders
will put the board of directors' feet to the fire for this. Assuming,
that is, that the company doesn't go bankrupt and/or dissolve.
Gotta love that schadenfreude.

On 8/13/07, Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
> > From: Jeff Hanson
>
> > On 8/10/07, Rich Clark <rrclark at rrclark.net> wrote:
> > > The Unix and Unixware copyrights belong to Novell! SCO is cat food!
> >
> > As expected, nobody owes SCO anything.  They just need to license IP
> > from M$.  :P
>
>  Actually, there's kind of a legal trick shot there. Since SCO doesn't own
> the copyrights on Unix, legally they were just 'renting' them for Novell.
> And so, the deals that SCO made with Microsoft and Sun? A substantial
> percentage of that money is owed to Novell.
>
>  Kind of an ouch for SCO. Now here's the interesting thing... the details
> of those agreements were not made public. But Novell is legally entitled to
> that money. So SCO can either (a) reveal the details of the agreements to
> Novell, and do some accounting to figure out how much SCO owes them, or else
> (b) SCO can offer a settlement and keep the details undisclosed. It would
> seem that (b) is unlikely - SCO would have to offer a *lot* - so we may well
> get a peek at just what MS and Sun 'bought' from SCO.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                            (313) 227-2317
>
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