Judge Kimball Sets the Rules of the Road for SCO v. Novell | Linux Today

Judge Kimball Sets the Rules of the Road for SCO v. Novell

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 20, 2007

“Here’s Judge Dale Kimball’s Memorandum Decision and Order, in
which he sets deadlines for what’s left to accomplish prior to the
date the trial is set to start. You can feel as you read it just
how close we are now. It’s getting very real to me.

“The parties are still arguing about pretrial disclosures, last
we heard, and then after Judge Kimball’s ruling on the summary
judgment motions pulled the rug right out from under SCO’s case, we
heard they were discussing whether a jury is needed or not and what
the ruling meant in all its particulars. But September 17 at 8:30
AM is the date set for the trial to begin. Judge Kimball states in
this document that while it was originally pencilled in to last 3
weeks, it should be ‘substantially shorter’ now.

“I’ll say. Except for SCO sobbing. That might take quite a
while…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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