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Week 2, Day 10 of SCO v. Novell - Chris Stone, O'Gara, Maciaszek, Nagle

By Pamela Jones et al.

Friday at the jury trial of SCO v. Novell, Chris Stone testified, and despite valiant efforts by SCO's Stuart Singer to make the phone call with Maureen O'Gara seem somehow scandalous, he handled himself professionally and apparently made the her allegations look inaccurate at best. He testified that he didn't tell her Novell was issuing a press release. She already knew. As for the call, he says he mostly listened.

The big news is that he says he's a venture capitalist now, and he was recently approached by none other than Darl McBride, contacting him about investing in his startup, and McBride allegedly told Stone he wouldn't have to worry about "that O'Gara business". Can you imagine the gall? Mr. Stone was surprised, naturally. And then her deposition was played, with the jury giggling, and then John Maciaszek testified, and then Andrew Nagle was on the stand to talk about copyright notices in UnixWare. He testified that Novell changed the copyright notices to say Santa Cruz after the APA. When Novell puts on its case, I expect they'll demonstrate that at a minimum, they must have missed some then. But I don't really think UnixWare is any major issue to Novell. Nagle also admitted that the phrase "intellectual property" can also mean source code. Michael Jacobs got a number of answers on the record that Nagle probably doesn't know will matter when Novell begins its case next week, but I noticed foreshadowing.

Full post as published by Groklaw on March 20, 2010 (boomark / email).