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SCO does not own Linux copyright: US judge ( They don't own the UNIX copyright either...)
ZDNET Australia ^ | 13 August 2007 01:03 PM | Stephen Turner, ZDNet Australia

Posted on 08/12/2007 8:55:08 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

A US federal court judge has ruled that Novell, and not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of copyrights covering the Unix operating system (OS), a ruling that should have a major effect on a number of lawsuits, including SCO's actions again Novell, IBM and Red Hat.

The 102-page ruling by Judge Dale Kimball refuted many of SCO's claims against Novell, and seemed to remove the basis for its lawsuit against IBM. SCO had previously charged that the Linux operating system was an unauthorised derivative of Unix, which it claimed to have purchased from Novell in 1995.

"The court's ruling has cut out the core of SCO's case and, as a result, eliminates SCO's threat to the Linux community based upon allegations of copyright infringement of Unix," Joe LaSala, Novell's senior vice president and general counsel, told the New York Times.

The Unix operating system was developed by AT&T researchers at Bell Labs from 1969. While it has been a long-time favourite in server and mainframe systems, it never gained a great foothold in the personal computer business until the Linux variant was developed in the early 1990s, and Apple started to base their Mac OS on a version of Unix.

Figures from the open-source industry also see the ruling as a boost to their business.

"This is a meaningful message in terms of people adopting open-source software," James Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, told the New York Times. "This says that Linux is a safe solution and people can choose it with that in mind."


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To: antiRepublicrat

I might buy that in the case of static linking. Dynamic linking OTOH is just automating the process you would do if you operated the GPL’ed program manually, so I’m not buying that, no matter what Stallman says.


81 posted on 08/13/2007 2:52:17 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Still Thinking
I’m not buying that, no matter what Stallman says.

Same here. That's why, as I've said, I prefer the clearer MPL.

82 posted on 08/13/2007 4:33:34 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
I support the rights of copyright owners across the board

Ridiculous. It's copyLEFT you support, traditional copyRIGHT owners like Microsoft and Oracle you constantly smear. LOL who do you think your lies are fooling?

83 posted on 08/14/2007 5:06:43 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
It's copyLEFT you support,

"Copyleft" can't exist without "traditional" copyright. Even supporters of "copyleft" have to support copyright, otherwise they're hypocrites.

, traditional copyRIGHT owners like Microsoft and Oracle you constantly smear

I have supported Microsoft's copyrights on this board. I deride upsets in the balance of copyright. I deride abuse of copyright, as in copyright holders trying to claim rights far beyond those granted by law, and Congress granting rights far beyond those allowed by the Constitution. My record is very clear on this.

84 posted on 08/14/2007 9:36:24 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Even supporters of "copyleft" have to support copyright, otherwise they're hypocrites

Which is of course the only time you support copyright, so you can enforce copyLEFT as directed by green party moonbat Stallman. LOL your very fist post to this site was an attack on copyright and has continued ever since. Your posting history is as far as anyone needs to go to find the truth, if lurkers ask for links it will take no time to find your attacks on copyright starting with your very first post to this board, it's apparrently why you even exist here, that and defending foreign produsts and hackers.

85 posted on 08/14/2007 9:43:41 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

IM sorry for butting in here but can you point to a post where AR does *not* support copyright?


86 posted on 08/14/2007 9:49:00 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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To: N3WBI3

Go check his posting history starting with his very first post to this board. But when you come back and say there are none I’ll be able to bust you both, again.


87 posted on 08/14/2007 9:59:49 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

Please provide a link, I’m not going to let you make a bulk accusation and the ask me to do you’re research for you..


88 posted on 08/14/2007 10:02:52 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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To: N3WBI3

LOL you wouldn’t have to look far and know it, as I said if any respectable lurkers doubt it, which I doubt, I’ll be happy to link them.


89 posted on 08/14/2007 10:19:05 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

GE,

You cant just accuse someone of something and the post *no* proof instead demanding that other people go do it for you!


90 posted on 08/14/2007 10:22:35 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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To: N3WBI3

I said his very first post to this board, and countless others. I also said if anyone other than another lunix fanboi asks I’ll be glad to link it. Go find a single post where he praises existing copyright law or private property ownership and bring it then, if you think it exists. If one does actually exist (it might since he constantly talks in circles) I can find two where he attacks copyright.


91 posted on 08/14/2007 10:35:28 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
I said his very first post to this board

Yet you wont link it, thats all Im asking

92 posted on 08/14/2007 10:41:07 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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To: N3WBI3

Yes I will, just as I said, if an honest person asks. Linux fanatics who try to compare Linus Torvalds to Ben Franklin simply aren’t worth the time LOL.


93 posted on 08/14/2007 10:54:34 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Linus Torvalds to Ben Franklin

Now I remember why I put my troll filter up, you're like talking to a bot, a badly written bot. I never compared the two I used them as an example of the conclusion of your Maoist tendencies to confer guilt on someone due to familial ties.

94 posted on 08/14/2007 11:13:23 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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To: ShadowAce

FYI, SCO now down to .37, market cap is under $8 million. Do they have enough to pay what they owe to Novell? To Red Hat since they’ll now win their claim?


95 posted on 08/14/2007 2:12:09 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: isthisnickcool

He only lost if he didn’t get paid. The losers here are the SCO shareholders who just took a hit, and the shareholders who are still holding on to the overvalued .40 per share stock.


96 posted on 08/14/2007 5:18:25 PM PDT by amchugh (large and largely disgruntled)
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To: Salo

Ouch that people are dumb enough to buy stock in a company with more liabilities than assets, even at 40 cents a share it is overvalued.


97 posted on 08/14/2007 5:40:52 PM PDT by amchugh (large and largely disgruntled)
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