It’s official, Novell, not SCO, owns Unix and Unixware copyrights
Groklaw has the details, but Judge Kimball has ruled in SCO versus Novell that:
[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.
Additionally he has ruled that:
SCO is obligated to recognize Novell’s waiver of SCO’s claims against IBM and Sequent
There is now a text version of the judgement.
August 11th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
It’s wonderful news! Inevitable, I’d like to think.. but it’s nice to have it resolved.
August 11th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
It’s certainly looking pretty terminal for SCO now, especially the fact that they’re going to owe Novell for the deals they did with Microsoft and Sun that they didn’t pay the required dues on.
There’s an amusing comment over on the Yahoo Finance SCOX board too that’s worth a read if you’re au fait with the parties involved..
August 12th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
[...] However, now that Judge Kimball has ruled that Novell actually owns the copyrights and not SCO I presume it’s now up to Novell to decide whether or not that deal is still valid, probably at least partly dependant on whether or not SCO can find the cash to pony up the dues on it they illegally withheld from Novell. [...]