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Week 3, Day 12 in SCO v. Novell - Tolonen, Amadia

By Pamela Jones et al.

First on the stand yesterday in SCO v. Novell was James Tolonen, who you may recall was Novell's CFO from 1989 to 1998 and was the chief business executive who provided direction for the APA and Amendment 2. And then they called Allison Amadia, the Novell lawyer who drafted Amendment 2. Here's her declaration [PDF] and Tolonen's [PDF]. Tor Braham was mentioned in both of their testimonies, so here's his declaration [PDF] as well.

So looking at the overview, Novell has both business people and several lawyers who were involved in the APA and the amendment; SCO has only business people and attorney Steve Sabbath and one paralegal, Kim Madsen, who contradicted each other somewhat. SCO had said they might want to put another lawyer, Troy Keller, on as a witness, and they got the judge to order a deposition, which happened yesterday we learn, but afterwards SCO decided they would not use him after all in their case in chief. What does that tell you?

Full post as published by Groklaw on March 24, 2010 (boomark / email).