Unix Copyrights Rightfully Belong to Novell

It's pretty much all over but the crying....

"In a decision that may finally settle one of the most
bitter legal
battles surrounding software widely used in corporate data
centers, a
federal district court judge in Utah ruled Friday afternoon
that Novell,
not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of the copyrights
covering the
Unix operating system."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/technol
ogy/11novell.html?ref=business



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On Saturday, Aug 11, 2007, at 00:50, John Lange wrote:
> It's pretty much all over but the crying....

Well, that and the inevitable class action lawsuit against
SCO by the 
companies that paid them license fees for software they
didn't own the 
rights to in the first place.  

> "In a decision that may finally settle one of the
most bitter legal
> battles surrounding software widely used in corporate
data centers, a
> federal district court judge in Utah ruled Friday
afternoon that 
> Novell,
> not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of the
copyrights covering the
> Unix operating system."
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/technol
ogy/11novell.html?ref=business

It's interesting to note that SCO's share price only dropped
by 1 cent 
following the news, having already dropped to about 8% of
its high 
point in 2003.  I guess the market knew it was coming.

-- 
Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <grdetilscrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanito
ba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7 
(Canada)

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