SCO Asks Judge Kimball for an Entry of Final Judgment So It Can Appeal Some Issues Immediately

I gather SCO has noticed that the SCO v. IBM litigation won’t be nearly so annoying to IBM unless it does something fast about Judge Dale Kimball’s August 10th ruling, which pared that case, like all of SCO’s cases, down to almost nothing but the counterclaims against SCO. So it’s asking the court to enter a final judgment on certain matters the ruling decided, so it can seek an immediate appeal on those issues, such as whether it owns the UNIX and Unixware copyrights after all and whether Novell has the authority to tell SCO to waive any purported breach of contract by licensees. Those are the two that shot arrows straight through SCO’s heart. Well. The heart of its litigation. I believe the evidence before us demonstrates that SCO is a corporation, and hence it has no heart.

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