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Show Utah Valley's Newspaper 0tiplie?ilp Thursday JULY 17, 2008 YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS ONLINE: YOUR NEWSPAPER Local news for 135 years 50 CENTS heraldextr V SCO Novell orders $2.61 Judge tapay Grace Leong DAILY HERALD d In a federal ruling issued late Wednesday, the bankrupt SCO Group was ordered to pay Novell $2.6 million in royalty payments on Unix licenses collected from Sun long-awaite- Microsystems. That restitution amount is significantly lower than the $19.9 million Novell sought fer what it called "unjust enrichment" by SCO because it collected those payments from Sun, Microsoft and 22 other Linux users of Unix software code without getting Novell's approval and allegedly refusing to account for them. who see it as SCO's attempts to misappropriate the contributions of the Novell could not be reached Wednesday for comment on the rul- ing. At issue is whether SCO has the right to obtain license fees from Linux users of Unix software code through its SCOsource program launched in 2003 an effort that angered many in the Linux community open-sourc- movement. e that issue, the verdict is split. In a ruling issued today, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball found SCO "breached its fiduciary duties" to Novell by failing to notify and account for the revenues SCO On 43-pa- See m 7 jr j v e vow.?' SCO, A3 Fewer drivers on Utah roads SPRINGVILLE WORLD FOLKFEST - received from Sun for the rights to opensource its own version of Unix products called OpenSolaris. which is based on Novell's SVRX code, or the earlier versions of Unix. In Wednesday's ruling. Kimball savs SCO violated Novell's SVRX Joe Pyrah DAILY '.i ti- 1. If, it j.. V v - fc HERALD Seeing a little less traffic on your morning commute? It's not your imagination. For the first time in decades, the Utah Department of Transportation says there are ."ewer drivers on the road over the past couple of months. The decline is only about 3 percent, but when you consider that Utah's growth rate hasn't really slowed, that's really saying something. UDOT doesn't have hard data as to why, but the price of gas appears to be the culprit. "I think we've definitely, finally reached that point," said UDOTs Nile Easton. "Apparently it's gas." Less traffic, less funding A little less traffic is good for drivers and saves wear and tear on the roads. But it also means MARIO RUIZDaily Herald a street dance performance and follow instruction from MacCulloch dancer Heather Young right during e group from Ontario Canada, Highland Wednesday. MacCulloch, a the of Art will feature performances nnLinate This week's celebrations. programs Folkfest World VCQr's in this rtvA tn miiciWnnc ia nnfo in Park Arts Sprmgville. Acres 'from around the world every night at 8 p.m. through Saturday, at Spring lSmctLnat iu-..- Sum step-danc- ut team BYU engineering students head race-ca- r Brittani Lusk DAILY HERALD BYU engineering students are usining their language skills to lead an ternational team of students building a Formula One race car. The newest version of the car ships to General Motors next week. Students from 20 schools in nine countries from South Korea to Sweden have been collaborating on the project through the Internet. Each school made a part of the machine, then sent students to Utah to assemble the car, which is still incomplete. "Right now it's a bunch of pieces," said BYU Alumnus Jordan Ryskamp, who's been working on the car since October. BYU mechanical engineering professor Greg Jensen has been leading the students. He said they plan to have the car finished and shipped by Tuesday. After their project is placed on display at GM headquarters, it will See a photo you would like to have in your home or office? Daily Herald photos are available online at heraldextra.comgallery. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS John SALT LAKE CITY McCain's remarks Wednesday to the NAACP that Mostly sunny C6 A4 BUSINESS EDITORIAL AS COMICS INUV SCOREBOARD B4 TV LISTINGS INUV B6 ARTS INUV DIGEST CINEMA IN OBITUARIES MUSIC INUV C4 "This engine will be more powerful than a brand new Corvette," Davis said. Next school year, a smaller group Brock Vergakis INSIDE WEATHER turbo-charge- it. of schools, including BYU, will test and perfect the car to make it d race-worth- was selected to lead the project two years ago because he volunteered for the job, and students at BYU can speak everyone Jensen said BYU else's language. students "I literally that could speak all of the languages," Jensen said. hand-picke- d See RACE CAR, Public transportation Where are all those drivers going? Some of them are riding the bus. The Utah Transit Authority reports that ridership is up 20 percent over last year. While transit officials across the country lack hard data about why, gas prices See A3 DRIVERS, A2 Utah NAACP president still against vouchers PHOTOS FOR SALE BRIEFING be shipped to South Korea, where it will be tested to see if it can race. BYU sophomore Jesse Davis said he built the the car should go fast engine. What started as a motor from a Chevrolet HHR now wields at least 500 horsepower. Davis and his team d replaced a lot of the motor and less funding for UDOT. which gets its revenue from a gas tax that hasn't changed in more than 10 years. Less revenue comes at a tough time as the dean price of asphalt is skyrocketing. UDOT rivative spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on asphalt. Easton said there are no new numbers on whether more people are using the carpool lanes, as counting involves putting people on overpasses to try and count the number of people in cars as they zoom by. HIGH 91 LOW 61 VOLUME 85 ISSUE 352 UV 6 ,N,61055 0005 0"8 vouchers should be given to children in failing schools was met with resistance from one of the civil rights organization's leaders in Utah, where the nation's broadest voucher program was killed with the help of by voters before it took the NAACP effect. "It would go back to the past before Brown v. Board of Education. There would be segregated schools," Jeanetta Williams, president of the Salt Lake branch, told The Associated Press by telephone from Cincinnati after McCain's speech there. Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman, a McCain supporter, signed Utah's voucher program into law February 2007. It would have given parents between $500 and $3,000 per child, depending on income, to use on tuition at a private school. Unlike voucher programs in other states, even affluent families and those in school districts would have qualified. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People opposed the program because it feared Utah would end up resembling the South following desegregation, when, vouchers were used in some states to send white children to expensive private schools. "The ones that would not have been able to afford the schools would've been children of color," Williams said. "I still think it's a very bad idea to have a voucher program." Generally, conservatives favor voucher programs while Democrats are opposed. But even in one of the nation's See VOUCHERS, A2 "After decades of hearing the same big promises ... and seeing the same poor results, it is surely time to ... demand new reforms." Sen. John McCain .speaking in favor oTschool vouchers |