Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to the lovely and talented ladyat!!! Have a good one!!

SCO: Game over

U.S. judge says Novell owns UNIX copyrights| Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. court ruled on Friday that Novell Inc. owns copyrights to the UNIX computer operating system, a blow to SCO Group's claim to the technology that also jeopardizes a related SCO lawsuit against IBM .

"The court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights," Judge Dale Kimball of the U.S. District Court for Utah said in the ruling.

He also ruled that Novell could force SCO to drop claims against IBM in a case crucial to the future of the cooperatively developed Linux operating system.

Novell "is entitled, at its sole discretion, to direct SCO to waive" its claim against IBM, the judge wrote.

I'd point to more details on Groklaw, but the net is wonky at the moment.

update: Groklaw's back. And it seems that they owe Novell big $$ for the licenses they "sold" to Microsoft and Sun. There may be a few loose ends, but basically SCOX goes back to being a "caldera". Literally, this time.

See this song for details.

Well fed and slightly boggled

Went out with the flower_cat for a delightful dinner at California Cafe in Los Gatos Old Town. Cups of gazpacho, a plate of baked brie (with apricot jam and a bulb of roasted garlic), and the Fruits de Mer platter for two (lobster tail, oysters, shrimp cocktail [with dry ice smoking under the bowl], and snow crab legs. Finished up with a cheese platter and café mocha for desert. (Actually, the Cat had the "Marvelous Mocha", which was alcoholic and yummy. But since I'd already had a Guinness with dinner...

I'd brought home the rest of the CDs mere minutes before we left for dinner, so we came home to a pile of boxes with a street price retail value of $15K. Mind-boggling.

(The Y.D. is still out for burger-and-a-movie, by the way, which is why the Cat and I were able to go out for dinner at a comparatively elegant restaurant that the kid wouldn't have been happy at.)