Linked by Andrew Youll on Tue 2nd Aug 2005 17:30 UTC, submitted by Rob
Novell has filed its response to SCO Group
slander of title case against it, making the same claim against the Unix vendor and adding
that it believes it is entitled to 95% of SCO's intellectual property licensing revenue.
This legal filing is the latest twist in the long-running argument between SCO and Novell over which company holds the copyrights to the UnixWare
operating system and Unix
System V code base, and could have a financial impact on SCO's other legal claims.
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I thought MS sold Xenix to SCO then stopped licensing UNIX code? or do they still license it for UNIX Services for NT?
I agree it is getting to a state of mass stupidity with all these SCO cases, it's been proven many a time via leaked memo's and lack of evidence that SCO hasn't got a leg to stand on thus far.
But... could this eventually lead to the collapse of some UNIX Oses like Solaris, because they paid for a license but the license entitles them to pretty much the ink its writen with and nothing more?
I personally hope no one other other than SCO suffers in this twist as i do enjoy using OpenSolaris, would be a shame if it vanished because of legal problems.
On the other hand Sun bought its UNIX license outright several years ago so would any claim Novell had against SUN now be irrelivant because of the time that has lapsed?