_
Judge rules Novel owns copyright to Unix, not SCO
Mon, 08/13/2007 - 10:04am
To quote Gerald Ford: "our long national nightmare is over" -- a judge ruled Friday that Novel owns the copyright to Unix, and as such the SCO vs IBM case is likely no more:
More at the New York Times website
Of course, those of us in the Free Software community new the suit to be baseless, but for another reason: Linux does not contain Unix code, anyway, despite what SCO alleges. Remember, Linux Is Not UniX...
So what does this mean? Basically, it means that even *if* Linux does contain Unix code (which many have maintained it does not), then Novel owns the rights to that code. And because Novel is a distributor of Linux, it doesn't matter -- Linux is licensed under the GPL, and by distributing it, Novel grants a copyright license to all downstream users who aquire it.
So game over SCO. No more menacing the Linux community with threats of lawsuits for using Linux. No more meaningless lawsuits.
Thu, 08/16/2007 - 11:12am
#2
SCO is done for this lawsuit was a last ditch effort on there part to survive, they failed.
Good bye SCO
Mon, 10/01/2007 - 9:26pm
#3
It seems you're right. SCO's already filed for bankruptcy, and very narrowly escaped being delisted form the NASDAQ. They're stock is hovering around $0.18 a share now...
I'll be interested to see what sharks start circling SCO's floating carcass...
Novel? Red Hat? *GASP* Microsoft...?
Just saw SCO's stock price (symbol SCOX): On Friday morning, they were at about $1.55 a share. Today they're at $0.41.
I laugh.
Also a bit telling that they have a special page on their website just to list the different people they're suing: http://www.sco.com/scoip/
They haven't updated the page on Novell yet. Big surprise...