As of ~13:40 EST, SCOX was down $0.73 (7.12%) to $9.52 on volume
of 470,454 (compared to 230,090 average daily volume).

As their stock price collapses, so too will their ability to maintain litigation.

As of ~13:15 (EST), SCOX is down $0.78 or nearly 7% to $10.50.

52wk Range: 1.89 - 22.29

Can we say "pump and dump?"

U: Closed at $10.25, down $1.03 (9.13%) on volume of
326,937 (about 50% more than average)

] LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 — Pixar Animation Studios, which produced
] last summer's popular "Finding Nemo," said on Thursday that it was
] ending talks on continuing its 12-year partnership with the Walt
] Disney Company and would seek another studio to distribute its
] films, beginning in 2006.

Rule number 1 about doing business with Steve Jobs: don't fuck with Steve Jobs.

Pixar Sees End to Its Disney Partnership

] SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Gateway Inc., hoping to reverse its
] sagging fortunes in the personal computer business, said
] Friday it would buy privately held eMachines Inc. in a
] deal valued at $235 million.

Gateway to Buy EMachines for $235 Million

Oral arguments on IBM's motion to compel discovery in the Utah SCO suit are today; stay tuned to groklaw for details...

Laughing Boy wrote:

] I'm sorry... my BS-O-METER is buried in the red. This reminds
] me of the Unisys claim that they were suddenly owed royalties
] by every company that sold software supporting .GIF image
] files a couple years back. There really need to be laws in

Recall that this was a big deal at the time; e.g. open-source software couldn't support (creating) gif files without buying an LZW license from Unisys. The patent expired in the US in June and expires elsewhere next year; I'll blog details in a minute.

RE: FAT File System Technology and Patent License

If M$ pushes this too hard, it will make a big mess. Ideally, we'd end up with any of the open-source FSes (or a new lightweight one) except that you need a Windows driver for said FS. I know some people who've been involved in porting AFS to windows and at the time, it sounded like the license terms on the Windows FS SDK (which costs $10K or something) were essentially such that you couldn't redistribute code that you wrote against the API.

RE: FAT File System Technology and Patent License

] The Round Rock, Texas, company has moved aggressively to
] shift technical support to centers in countries such as
] India, but complaints about the quality of technical
] support have caused the company to move support for its
] Optiplex desktops and Latitude notebooks back to U.S.
] call centers in Texas, Idaho and Tennessee, among others,
] said Jon Weisblatt, a Dell spokesman.

InfoWorld: Dell shifts some support calls to US after complaints: November 24, 2003: By : End-user Hardware

] There's a traditional definition of a shyster: a lawyer
] who, when the law is against him, pounds on the facts;
] when the facts are against him, pounds on the law; and
] when both the facts and the law are against him, pounds
] on the table. The SCO Group's continuing attempts to
] increase its market value at the expense of free software
] developers, distributors and users through outlandish
] legal theories and unsubstantiated factual claims show
] that the old saying hasn't lost its relevance.

SCO: Without Fear and Without Research

] The SEC filing confirms that Microsoft, which has much to
] gain from dissuading businesses from adopting Linux, has
] paid at least two sums to SCO to licence Unix, the second
] for $8m.

Not really news...

vnunet.com Microsoft millions back SCO case