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

Gary Layng glayng-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Sat Aug 11 02:52:18 UTC 2007


Of course you realize that the stock price of SCO is just going to soar to the 
Moon on Monday.

It always goes up on bad news, down on good.  It's kinda backwards that way. 
^_^

Me, I'm buying stock in chair manufacturers.


On Friday 10 August 2007 18:09, James Knott wrote:
> 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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