[CLUE-Talk] Laughing my a** off

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

The SCO case just got a little less solid... Novell has stepped up to
say that they own any copyrights related to Unix and they're not
interested in pursuing any claims against Linux:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030528/sfw032a_1.html


First, Novell challenged SCO's assertion that it owns the copyrights and
patents to UNIX System V, pointing out that the asset purchase agreement
entered into between Novell and SCO in 1995 did not transfer these
rights to SCO. Second, Novell sought from SCO facts to back up its
assertion that certain UNIX System V code has been copied into Linux.
Novell communicated these concerns to SCO via a letter (text below) from
Novell® Chairman and CEO Jack Messman in response to SCO making these
claims.

"To Novell's knowledge, the 1995 agreement governing SCO's purchase of
UNIX from Novell does not convey to SCO the associated copyrights,"
Messman said in the letter. "We believe it unlikely that SCO can
demonstrate that it has any ownership interest whatsoever in those
copyrights. Apparently you share this view, since over the last few
months you have repeatedly asked Novell to transfer the copyrights to
SCO, requests that Novell has rejected."

"SCO claims it has specific evidence supporting its allegations against
the Linux community," Messman added. "It is time to substantiate that
claim, or recant the sweeping and unsupported allegation made in your
letter. Absent such action, it will be apparent to all that SCO's true
intent is to sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Linux in order to
extort payments from Linux distributors and users."


This is wonderful... 

Zonker
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