Is it really true?

davijordan · Post by **davijordan** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:16 pm

The court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.

greggh · Post by **greggh** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:20 pm

Linky dinky?

greggh · Post by **greggh** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:21 pm

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.

davijordan · Post by **davijordan** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:45 pm

The next question is: Will microsoft buy Novell or has it already?

greggh · Post by **greggh** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:31 pm

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.

allix · Post by **allix** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:42 pm

i cannot wait for Microsoft UNIX

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

adam · Post by **adam** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:05 am

allix wrote:i cannot wait for Microsoft UNIX

it was called xenix and you're about 25 years too late

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

Post by **Patrick** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:04 am

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.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:58 am

Does this mean I get my $3495 ($699 * 5) back?

davijordan · Post by **davijordan** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:40 pm

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.