Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 18th Jul 2008 23:29 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
The convoluted case of SCO v. Novell dealt a heady blow to the SCO Group Wednesday, with United States District Judge Dale Kimball ordering the company to pay $2.5 million to Novell for improperly claiming, and collecting royalties for, the Unix operating system.
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Caldera nee SCO has released 32v under a nice permissive license. There is nothing to suggest that Novell should reverse such a decision - and since they have taken no action to stop SCO I think there is some legal entanglements to trying to stop it by now.
In fact, if there are no appeals this could possibly happen:
1a. SCO goes into chapter 7 and liquidates
1b. SCO pays up (maybe Microsoft or Sun will give them more money?) and continue to change their story in the IBM litigation to keep it alive
2a. Novell open sources all of SysV
2b. Novell demands money and/or sues Sun for acting in bad faith and open sourcing SysV - and THEN open sources SysV
Other ghosts that may appear - the arbitration between SuSE (Novell) and SCO in Switzerland.
Novell has no interest in the litigation "business", after all, how well has it worked for the SCOundrels?