A 2005 retrospective

Posted Dec 22, 2005 15:24 UTC (Thu) by southey (subscriber, #9466) [Link]

Well, in terms of your 'farce', it seems really part of the USA way to let everyone have their day(s) in court. Also, realise how slow the system actually is even ignoring SCO tactics. From the previous rulings really nothing major was going to happen until the discovery has ended. Obviously it is only fair that all the evidence is obtained otherwise there would be a series of appeals and new cases. Based on the last rulings it seems that the discovery period is about to end and SCO is running out of options to delay it further.

What has been accomplished is that SCO no longer has it's way and is rather silent. The court is starting to get annoyed at SCO tactics which is not a good sign. We have seen some of SCO claims go into flames (like the PowerPC chip license). But the really most important accomplishment is that IBM finally has the infringing code but we probably will not get to see it for some time.