It's time for a song for SCO to sing, to cheer itself up. Scott Lazar has come up with one. Hopefully Yoko won't sue us, because you sing it to a tune that sounds a lot like Yesterday. Feel free

We have the entire ISO/IEC recommendations document [PDF] as text now, the memo with attachments, including all four of the appeals against OOXML, sent by Alan Bryden, Secretary-General and CEO, ISO, and Aharon Amit, General Secretary and CEO, IEC to

The media is beginning to cover the Order in the SCO v. Novell trial. Here's a sampling:Information Week: "In a decision Wednesday, Utah District Court Judge Dale Kimball, who had previously ruled that Novell, and not SCO, owns the rights

Judge Kimball rules in SCO v. Novell! Here it is [PDF] at last! I haven't read it yet myself, just quickly skimmed it enough to see that SCO owes Novell some money ($2,547,817 plus interest probably -- SCO can oppose

I'm very happy to tell you that it's just been announced that the Peer-to-Patent project, which is a cooperative project between New York Law School and the USPTO, has been extended after the first year's trial. It's also been expanded

Here is the Viacom-YouTube Google stipulation on privacy, technically called the Stipulation Regarding July 1, 2008 Opinion [PDF] that YouTube just announced, as text. The important part of the agreement is this: Google gets to substitute values for User IDs,

As you know, Red Hat and FireStar settled their patent litigation in June. One of the terms required confidentiality for 30 days, but that time period is over, so we now have the agreement [PDF] itself to study, minus only

Here's South Africa's appeal against OOXML as text, our final section of our text versions of the entire memo [PDF] sent by the heads of ISO/IEC to the Technical Management Board suggesting that the four appeals against OOXML, attached as

I guess the wait was too much for some. There is a pro se motion to intervene [PDF] filed in SCO v. Novell by a person who is known for targeting prominent folks in lawsuits. I refer you to Wikipedia

Here are the appeals to the ISO from India's Bureau of Indian Standards and Venezuela's standards body, FONDONORMA, regarding OOXML, as text, thanks to Steve Martin, once again, and Erwan. The PDF is here, if you wish to check it.

Thanks to Groklaw's Steve Martin, we have Brazil's appeal against the approval of OOXML as an ISO standard, as text. It begins on page 11 of the ISO document [PDF] Groklaw published Wednesday, the recommendation memo to the TMB to

There has been a bit of a dustup about KDE 4.0. A lot of opinions have been expressed, but I thought you might like to hear from KDE. So I wrote to them and asked if they'd be willing to

The bankruptcy hearing set for July 15 has been cancelled. That's the one about the moral yearning SCO feels to pay York some money. It's been moved to August 13 at 10 AM. I'd say that's one not to miss,

Viacom has a statement on its site now about the YouTube litigation it probably hopes will reassure you. Leaving out the anti-Google trash talk, it reads like this:A recent discovery order by the Federal Court hearing the case of Viacom

Here is the ISO document [PDF] reporting the recommendation of Alan Bryden, Secretary-General and CEO, ISO, and Aharon Amit, General Secretary and CEO, IEC, to the Technical Management Board (TMB) not to pursue the appeals filed against OOXML. You could

Viacom and YouTube/Google have agreed on terms regarding how to handle a problem. No. This one's not about you. We're still waiting to hear how that works out. But it indicates that the parties are able to work out issues

Sean Daly has kindly prepared a text version of the EU-LEX notice of Microsoft's complaint against the EU Commission, found in the latest EU Official Journal. Microsoft says the fine announced in February is too high. It should be annulled,

Let's continue with our look at the trial testimony and finish up day 2 with our version of the transcripts with line numbers, the testimony of John Maciaszek. Our previous articles on day 2 covered the second day of Chris

Groklaw has been recognized with a 2008 Prix Ars Electronica Honorable Mention, in the category of Digital Communities. Here's what that means: The "Digital Communities" category will honor important achievements by digital communities as well as innovative artistic approaches towards

I found some evidence Google tried hard to protect user confidentiality, in some letters to the judge in the court docket of Viacom v. YouTube. After the Order [PDF; text here] issued, Google didn't give up, but is continuing even