DITH Nov 24 – Novell owns UNIX – SCO group loses

DITH Nov 24 – Novell owns UNIX – SCO group loses

November 23rd, 2009 | Author: Jeffrey Powers - @geekazine

2008 – After a long court battle with the Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) group, a judge rules that Novell is the owner of UNIX and UNIXWare copyrights. In 2003 – just after SCO changed their name from Caldera – had made a claim that the SCO IP was incorporated into Linux and that they should get a cut from each copy sold. Novell states that they own the code to UNIX and therefore this claim was not valid. The battle went on, and still goes on to this day, with SCO group dwindled down to a shell (no pun intended). Part of the rulings on this case have been reversed since.

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