In throwing out SCO’s claim that it owns the copyrights to Unix, the judge essentially eviscerated the whole ridiculous case, including the charges against IBM and others.  It makes for sweet reading, and Joe LaSala got a nice quote in the John Markoff article in the Times today:  “The court’s ruling has cut out the core of SCO’s case and, as a result, eliminates SCO’s threat to the Linux community based upon allegations of copyright infringement of Unix,” said Joe LaSala, Novell’s senior vice president and general counsel.