SCO News Roundup

So it's day 4 of 4 in the SCO v. Novell trial, so it'll all be over some time later today. Unless they find a way to drag the thing out longer, which shouldn't be ruled out.

GL has a raft of new stories up.

• Updated: GL's Report on the Last Day of the Trial in Novell v. SCO".
  
• First off, a first look at Day 3, with SCO presenting its case (such as it is).
  
• Transcripts for the first two days, made possible by generous GL donors.
  
• Day 1 transcript as text.
  
• Day 2 transcript as text.
  

Elsewhere on the interwebs:

• Salt Lake Tribune: "SCO-Novell trial ends, judge promises decision soon"
  
• InformationWeek: "SCO On The Stand", which begins "There are times when the jokes just seem to tell themselves."
  
• Computerworld's IT Blogwatch: "SCO in court again: Novell wants its $19,979,561.00". Although it's really just a bunch of links to other stories you've probably already seen.
  
• ZDNet: "SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is copy of Unix'".
  
• Couple of Slashdot stories: "Darl McBride Takes the Stand In Novell v. SCO", and then SCO's McBride Testifies '
  Linux Is a copy of UNIX'.
  

From GL's now heavily-updated Day 2 story, we learn that Darl took the stand yesterday, and it sounds like it was quite a show. One courtroom observer delivers a quote for the ages:

Darl took issue with what he believed was Mr. Acker calling him a liar. Mr. Acker took exception and said he thought it had already been established that Mr. McBride tells the truth in the 10Qs.

And the morning batch of media coverage:

• Ars Technica: "Deluded SCO CEO on witness stand: 'Linux is a copy of UNIX'"
  
  
• OSNews: "McBride: 'Linux Is a Copy of UNIX'". Seems like Darl's star turn in the witness box isn't garnering many rave reviews. It's kind of puzzling really -- he had to have known he'd be on the stand sooner or later. And for the kind of money SCO's paying the guy, he could certainly afford some basic intro-level acting classes. But noooo. That's hubris for ya, I guess.
  
  
• CIO Today reprints yesterday's Deseret News story, in case you haven't seen it.
  
  
• Salt Lake Tribune: "Novell may expand its claims". Confusingly, the title refers to the possibility of Novell going after Sun and Microsoft. I actually don't see that happening, or at least I don't see those potential disputes ending up in court like this one. They'll sit down behind closed doors and work something out, the way normal companies usually do, and we'll see some PR about an exciting new partnership between various firms, the financial terms of which will not be disclosed. Happens all the time. Sometimes I think people forget just how abnormal SCO's behavior really is.
  
  
• Ians-Blog: "Novell v. SCO -- PJ needs your help!" Fortunately these days "help" just means PayPal donations, as SCO appears to have gotten out of the stalking business. At least for the time being.
  
  
• CelebrityPro.com: "Chris Brown News - First Word from Day 1 of the Novell v. SCO Trial". This one is probably not worth your time other than for the amusement value. Apparently there's another, R&B singing, non-courtroom-observing Chris Brown out there. It looks like CelebrityPro just aggregates all stories and blog posts containing a name. For each story, it generates a page full of cheesy youth-oriented flash ads (Axe body spray and so forth), with a link back to the original story.
  
  At least I think that's what's going on. The other possibility is that "our" Chris Brown is the real celebrity, and he's finally getting his 15 minutes. It's unlikely, but possible -- after all, I've never heard of that other guy, so how famous could he be, really?