Groklaw - Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive!

[Colin McGregor]

--- James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070810165237718

FANTASTIC!!!

Quick reading of the article, Novell owns the Unixware
copyrights!, Novell has every right to waive any
infringement issues with IBM, so now there is ZERO
question regarding IBM having done anything wrong (IBM
having maintained that they didn't do anything outside
the letter of their agreements, and didn't require
Novell's blessing, that point is now irrelevant).

Further the judge noted that SCO owes Novell $ for the
licenses sold to Microsoft and Sun, how much is still
to be decided. This will almost certainly bankrupt
SCO. 

Also, while SCO's case against IBM is now decapitated
and gutted, IBM's case against SCO is untouched. So,
if by miracle (and that is what it will take) SCO does
survive the current encounter with Novell, IBM will
kill the company...

A great day :-) .

Colin
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