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Litigious Bastards, the SCO Group, recieved a summary slapping from Judge Chabot, in her Michigan court. All counts of SCO Group’s case against Daimler Chrystler Corporation have been dismissed except one; was it appropriate for DC to take more than 30 days to respond to a request to certify use of a product that DC had abandoned more than seven years ago; the request having been sent to the wrong person at a building that no longer exists. I wish the SCOX group the best of luck addressing that claim.

In their original complaint, SCOX complained that despite DC having informed them that the machine originally certified for System V UNIX was put out of use a long time ago, they still demanded a list of certified machines, and in any case they took too long to reveal this fact.

DC Responded by explaining that it is not possible nor even relevant to provide a list of machines, and that their certification was valid because they have correctly informed SCO Group of the status of any machines licensed to run the product. An empty list is still a list.

Could this be the frequently predicted (but often delayed) ultimate doom of the SCO group? Is this the beginning of the end? Of the five main court-cases involving the SCO group and Linux related matters one has been lost, two are suspended (Redhat, Autozone), and two appear to be turning sour for SCO (IBM, Novell).

Meanwhile, SCO remain chipper in the face of almost certain doom. In an almost complete reversal of his commengts from a week ago, Blake Stowell said: “‘We’re satisfied that DaimlerChrysler did finally certify their compliance with the software agreement, but we are still interested in gaining some information on why they didn’t certify within the allotted time. [The Case] is not completely over yet, because the judge still held out the possibility that we could pursue trying to find out information from DaimlerChrysler on why they took so long to certify.’”