Images of the complaint and its exhibits

Posted Jun 24, 2005 3:13 UTC (Fri) by Feldegast (guest, #30638) [Link]

Posted Aug 12, 2005 16:58 UTC (Fri) by petrofsky (guest, #26862) [Link]

I'm posting this comment on August 12 as a reply to LWN.net comment 141017. That comment now says "Posted Jul 12, 2005 12:59 UTC (Tue) by guest petrofsky", but I actually posted it on June 23 at 14:53 -0600. What happened on July 12 was that the body of the comment was removed and replaced with "[This comment has been removed by the LWN editors, sorry]".

Below is the original content of the comment. The apparent reason for the editing of the comment is that it contained a link to http://scofacts.org/Merkey-Perens-1_1.pdf, which, at the time the comment was posted, returned a PDF file of the exhibits to Merkey's complaint, one of which was subsequently sealed by a court order later that day. However, the PDF file containing the exhibits was removed from that URL on the following day, June 23, long before the comment was edited on July 12.

For further details, see scofacts.org/merkey.html.

Original contents of message 14107, Posted Jun 22, 2005 20:53 UTC (Wed):

I can verify that this complaint was really filed. Here are images of the complaint and its exhibits that I obtained from the court's subscribers-only website. The second exhibit appears to be a 1998 confidential settlement of two lawsuits between Novell and Merkey. I wrote some thoughts about the complaint in messages 275549 and 275622 on Yahoo's SCOX message board. (The latter message references a complaint against Merkey that was filed in April.)