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

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 10 22:09:00 UTC 2007


Colin McGregor wrote:
> --- 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 :-) .
>
>   

Essentially, SCO lost their claims, but the Novell and IBM counterclaims
stand. It sure sounds like launching those claims and others wasn't such
a good idea.  ;-)



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