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Does this mean IBM can't proceed?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 07 2012 @ 03:47 PM EDT
Once SCO is no more, there is no more bankruptcy stay, and so both IBM and
Redhat can move for summary judgement based on the lack of an opposition and
hopefully get declarations from the court that Linux does not violate any UNIX
copyrights.

Actually, they both got that already. Novell had declared that Linux did not
violate any UNIX copyrights back when they first made their public statements
that they still owned the copyrights, which is what SCO sued Novell over in the
first place. So once Novell won their law suit with SCO, Redhat's suit against
SCO was moot. IBM does still have some counterclaims against SCO concerning
breach of contract and copyright violations by SCO of IBM owned code.

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Does this mean IBM can't proceed?
Authored by: tknarr on Tuesday, August 07 2012 @ 03:48 PM EDT

I don't think that happens. The legal actions have to be resolved one way or another before liquidation can be completed. And IIRC in the IBM case the lawyers are on the hook regardless of payment thanks to BSF signing that contract, they've been paid in full so they can't walk away. I'm not sure how filing fees and such work, BSF may have to pay those themselves and bill their client for them depending on what the rules are. But I think SCO has to get the judges in all those cases to either dismiss the cases or rule on them, SCO can't just make them disappear.

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