Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Intellectual Property Law Blogs -> Groklaw

Intellectual Property Law

: Groklaw

SCO v Novell Trial Transcripts as text, Day 4 - Messman, Levine, Mohan, Michels, Wilt, Broderick

By Pamela Jones et al.

Here's the transcript as text for day four of the SCO v. Novell trial that began on Monday, March 8, 2010 in US District Court in Salt Lake City Utah and ran for 15 days, Monday through Friday, for three weeks. The Honorable Ted Stewart presided. Day 4 was Thursday, March 11, 2010, and the witnesses on that day, by video deposition, were Jack Messman, Burt Levine, Alok Mohan, Doug Michels, and Jim Wilt. William Broderick then took the stand, live.

I know. Lots of witnesses, but it's short snips from prior depositions mainly. Still, it feels like a long, long day.

This is still SCO presenting its case. Novell's turn comes later, and Novell's lawyer, Sterling Brennan, in his opening statement had asked the jury to wait for the rest of the story from Novell before reaching any conclusions during SCO's presentation. I have to say though that one inescapable conclusion from the day is that SCO didn't hit any solid home runs, but it definitely got hit in the head with a couple of fastballs. I think Fibers.com has a perfect T-shirt for SCO's Day 4 witnesses. It says:

"I reject your reality and substitute my own".

It's quite a stubborn performance by one and all. Novell shows them the APA and amendments, and witnesses say it's not what they meant, not what they had in mind.

Full post as published by Groklaw on August 05, 2010 (boomark / email).