Did SCO Get Linux-mob Justice?

An anonymous reader writes "According to Fortune's legal blogger Roger Parloff, "once in awhile a judicial ruling comes down that's so wrong at such a basic level that you're just left scratching your head". He claims that Judge Kimball's "102-page ruling (about SCO) was greeted with widespread rejoicing and I-told-you-so's", but "the problem is not that Judge Kimball's view of the facts is wrong". Was the ruling unfair?"

Don't forget...

[SCO$699FeeTroll]

...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.

unfair?

[gEvil (beta)]

Was the ruling unfair?

Hmmm, I can't think of a more appropriate place to ask that question...

Nope

[$RANDOMLUSER]

SCO (and Darl in particular) didn't get enough mob justice. I'm thinking keelhauling is about right.

Re:1st post

[robot_love]

Sure, you got it. Good job.

Re:Nope

[confused one]

For keelhauling to be properly effective (as it was intended), you'd have to find an old ship with a barnacle encrusted hull.

TACO???

[someone1234]

If you know it is a dead horse, who do you beat it?

Nyet

[sacrilicious]

An anonymous reader writes ... Was the ruling unfair?

Hey anonymous reader, why don't you write down allllll your thoughts on this matter and mail them to five years ago when I might have cared.

Since when?...

[msauve]

Since Darl figured out how to create a slashdot account.

Re:Nope

[$RANDOMLUSER]

And the guy who chose that light grey font and white background on TFA's site, too.

Re:TACO???

[Spy der Mann]

who do you beat it?

I am not understand you're question! :P

Re:Nope

[peragrin]

give him? oh hell no those goggles cost $699 a pair to make. we can sell them at cost however.

Re:Don't forget...

[cooley]

and we knew who we weeeeere then,
trolls were trolls, and girls were men,
you know we could use a man like CleverNickName again
Everyone would moderate,
then take a break to masturbate
Gee, our old Slashcode ran great
THOSE...WERE...THE...DAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYSSS

good point

[taniwha]

it's the BSD guys who have the pitchforks

Re:Nope

[Basehart]

Can we squeeze a thumbscrew and flogging in there while they're roasting his member on the brazier? There's really nothing else going on during that bit.

Re:No A$$hole Rule

[glindsey]

If all businesses followed the "No Asshole Rule" there would be nobody left to run Comcast, AT&T, Vivendi, News Corporation, Universal, BMG, Time-Warner, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, Microsoft, Paramount, Exelon... I could go on but I'm sure you get the idea.

Re:Since when?...

[trolltalk.com]

Jurisprudence has settled that wilfull ignorance is not a defense. Besides, Boies et al should have asked for the decumentation that would allow them to legally prove SCO's case. When you go to see a lawyer, you bring your paperwork with you. Its like going to the shit-house - "The job ain't complete until the paperwork is done."

Boies was lazy and/or incompetent. This isn't the first time, btw.

Re:Nope

[TheLinuxSRC]

"give him? oh hell no those goggles cost $699 a pair to make. we can sell them at cost however."

You sir, while I admire your bravado, are completely wrong. We do *not* sell anything. We license it. Having said that, we also license based on an arbitrary limit set by ourselves. In this case, the OPU (Ocular Processing Unit; a.k.a. eye). Now, being that Darl has 2 OPUs, we will need to license accordingly.

To sum up; we will license the goggles to Darl based on the extremely affordable and justifiable flat rate of $699/OPU. Thank you :)

Re:No A$$hole Rule

[AeroIllini]

You seem to imply that would be a bad thing.

Re:Since when?...

[Darl MacBride]

Come on, I have a SlashDot account for much longer than that already. :-)