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Is it really true?

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:16 pm
by davijordan
The court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:20 pm
by greggh
Linky dinky?

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:21 pm
by greggh
Nevermind. Here it is.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... 0165237718
Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive!
Friday, August 10 2007 @ 04:52 PM EDT

Hot off the presses: Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling [PDF] on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO v. Novell. Here is what matters most:

[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.

That's Aaaaall, Folks! The court also ruled that "SCO is obligated to recognize Novell's waiver of SCO's claims against IBM and Sequent". That's the ball game. There are a couple of loose ends, but the big picture is, SCO lost. Oh, and it owes Novell a lot of money from the Microsoft and Sun licenses.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:45 pm
by davijordan
The next question is: Will microsoft buy Novell or has it already?

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:31 pm
by greggh
davijordan wrote:The next question is: Will microsoft buy Novell or has it already?
Absolutely MS will buy Novell. Now that the court has officially declared that Novell owns the UNIX copyrights, Microsoft can add another 240 Linux copyright violations to their 240 patent infringements with a Novell purchase, and keep the FUD going another few years.

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:42 pm
by allix
i cannot wait for Microsoft UNIX :P

seriously i hope Helios from Lobby4Linux is right that m$ will fight against patents.

Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:05 am
by adam
allix wrote:i cannot wait for Microsoft UNIX :P
it was called xenix and you're about 25 years too late :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:04 am
by Patrick
Sco stock is down 71% today:
http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=SCOX

This is the first day of trading since the verdict. They'll probably get de-listed by the end of the month. The end is near for them.

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:58 am
by Brian
Does this mean I get my $3495 ($699 * 5) back?

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:40 pm
by davijordan
I found some real old original disks sets that could have sco unix and caldera linux on them. Maybe they will become a collector's items.