Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 11th Aug 2007 18:25 UTC, submitted by irbis
"Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling 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. The court also ruled that "SCO is obligated to recognize Novell's waiver of SCO's claims against IBM and Sequent". 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", GrokLaw writes.
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2006-01-28
For once, justice has been served. This travesty of using the court system and the press to make all kinds of wild inaccurate accusations without ever having to provide meaningful evidence had to come to a stop.
I went out and celebrated with some of my closest friends. Good food, good wine, and the feeling that for a few moments the world wasn't as wretched a place as we often think it.
All I hope is that IBM, Red Hat and Novell will not stop at this ruling and prevail in their existing counter litigation and make sure that SCO is so dead when this whole affair is over that no other company will try to pull a similar stunt.
Thanks to all the involved companies for doing what's right for their shareholders and Linux.
And now that Novell clearly owns the Unix copyrights, wouldn't it be great if they released them under the BSD or GPL and allow all of us to move on.