[CLUE-Talk] Laughing my a** off

[John Kennedy]

I'm
Rolling on the ground...laughing.....  serves 'em right.

Hooray for Novell.

John Kennedy


Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

>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
>