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1. Comment - Microsoft Scrambling to Explain Ballmer Comment on Red Hat Linux

   (Oct 10, 2007 - 3:53 PM)

   Actually, Ballmer used the weasel-wording "intellectual property"; what is it, Steve? Copyrights? Patents? Trademarks? ???
   
   By calling out Linux companies, but failing to follow through, even when Red Hat has publicly asked MS to do so and reveal what patents they're claiming are infringement, they may have locked themselves out of doing so later on; look up the term "laches". If you ignore defending your patent/trademark rights in the face of known infringement, you can't turn around later and sue; you've lost your right to it.
   
   Meanwhile MS' legal department is no doubt trying to tell Ballmer to please STFU to avoid this...

2. Comment - Novell Asks Court to Lift Stay of SCO Trial, Urging Swifter Resolution

   (Oct 9, 2007 - 12:35 PM)

   that $500-800K is the yearly estimate of what's owed Novell by SCOX.
   
   Those lump-sum payments from Sun and MS were deemed in court to be for SVRX licenses as well, though, and equally subject to the 95% rule as a result. Trouble for SCOX is, they haven't got that much money left in the bank. The bench trial for how much of that roughly $25M was due to Novell was due to start Monday 17 Sept; SCOX filed Ch. 11 Friday the 14th. Other than this judgment hanging over them, though, they're solvent, if marginally so, so why not lift the stay and find out how much in the hole they *really* are? You'd think the bankruptcy trustee would want to know, wouldn't you?