[clug-talk] Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIXand UnixWare copyrights!

[Jon Watson]

Thanks, Shawn. I admit to having a very short tolerance for details like this. Good to have the Coles notes version :)

J


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Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIXand	UnixWare	copyrights!

Business as usual for MS.  They purchased a license from SCO, and that 
license is still valid.  All that changes here is that SCO had an 
obligation to pass the funds collected on to Novell (then get a small 
percentage back).

The case is NOT over though.  This decision puts a serious dent in SCO's 
claims and turfs a few of them.  But there are other claims that were 
not dependent on who owned the copyright.

Same for IBM vs SCO.  All the copyright infringement claims are out the 
window.  But the breech of contract claims are still on the table.

So while this is a VERY big decision in the cases, we're not done yet. 
I suspect SCO will appeal this, and delay delay delay - as seems to be 
their modus operendi...

My thoughts...

Shawn

Jon Watson wrote:
> I don't pretend to have more than a passing familiarity with the details of this case, but I seem to recall that this ruling will be bad news for MS as well, no?
> 
> Jon
> 
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> Sent: Fri Aug 10 19:53:48 2007
> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare	copyrights!
> 
> Looks like the D.U.H. moment for me. Like allmost anyone with some formal 
> acquaintance with the computer industry knows that Novell, and not SCO owns 
> the UNIX thingy. So Anyone with SCO shares to sell ?
> Cheers
> Szemir
> 
> On August 10, 2007 17:07, Graham Monk wrote:
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php
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