Keep it tied up in the courts for the next 100 years, for all I care. By then the copyright will finally expire (barring more Mickey Mouse legislative interference). Novell is the better of the two parties vying for the rights at the moment, but there's no guarantee that once this is all over it won't turn vicious itself.

just wanted to clear this piece up.

Essentially North American and many other judicial systems are based on written law, and where there is no Written Law it goes down to Case Law.

First there is constitutional law, law which is supposed to establish fairness and a set of rules.

Written law is supposed to give overrides Case Law.

Case Law is essentially a precedent over the interpretation of written law. Meaning its the first case to have such an occurrence. It also means that should written law not be within the spirit of the constitution it can be removed through the supreme court.

Thus with the three there is an attempt at a balanced judicial system.

but where the hell did we get the idea of case law in a frickin' Constitutional Republic. We're a nation of written law, and have been, or at least we've supposed to have been, since 1776. So where in the notion of written law do we get the idea that judges get to decide what something says? If more than one meaning can be derived from something, then you don't interpret it, you call it crap and try to fix it.

We need to tell these judges to quit fucking up our country and that they have no right to make law. They never did have the right to make law, and we need to throw that in their faces until they start to straighten out.

We are not a democracy, and we never have been a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic with a responsibility to protect that Constitutional Republic.