A couple of decisions were handed down on Friday that might heavily influence the amount of fun a person has this weekend, depending on which side of the issue they supported.  I found both of these articles in the InfoWorld feed I get and both made me smile.

First, a judge has decided that not only does Novell own the UNIX copyrights that SCO was suing over, but that SCO Group give Novell a portion of the licensing revenue that it received from Microsoft and IBM.  Talk about getting kicked while you're down.  In addition, since SCO doesn't own the copyrights to Unix, SCO's suits against IBM must be dismissed.  Hopefully this will lift the cloud that has been hanging over the Linux/Unix community for a while.

Second, INCITS' executive committee failed to approve Microsoft's OOXML as a standard.  This is really good news for the ODF supporters and hopefully will have ripple effects across the world's standard bodies.  What I really don't understand is why Apple voted in favor of the standard since Office on the Mac doesn't even support it.