[CLUE-Talk] Laughing my a** off

[Crawford Rainwater]

I think as a support for Novell, communities like
CLUE should help Novell a bit...anyone up for some
stock purchasing here? ;-)

--- Crawford

> -----Original Message-----
> From: clue-talk-admin at clue.denver.co.us
> [mailto:clue-talk-admin at clue.denver.co.us]On Behalf Of John Kennedy
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:20 AM
> To: clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us
> Subject: Re: [CLUE-Talk] Laughing my a** off
>
>
> 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
> >
>
>
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