Posted on 03/30/2010 4:42:54 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
The former federal judge overseeing The SCO Group's bankruptcy said a jury decision today that Novell Inc., and not SCO, owns the copyrights to the Unix computer operating system does not end the company's litigation against others.
Former U.S. District Judge Edward Cahn, the trustee for SCO's bankruptcy filed in Delaware, said the company is "deeply disappointed" in the jury's verdict in the dispute over which company owned the copyrights to Unix, which is widely used in business computing.
But Cahn said SCO intends to continue its lawsuit against IBM, in which the computer giant is accused of using Unix code to make the Linux operating system a viable competitor, causing a decline in SCO's revenues. "The copyright claims are gone, but we have other claims based on contracts," Cahn said.
The former judge, who recommended to the bankruptcy court last year that SCO continue to pursue lawsuits against Novell and IBM, said he will meet with lawyers to discuss what today's verdict does to the company's Unix business and what it means to SCO's future.
Novell said it is not in that business despite the verdict. During the trial, Novell attorneys argued it retained the copyrights when it sold Unix in 1995. Novell has placed its business bets on Linux, a system known as open source. That means anyone is given free access to its basic codes that are developed by people in the open source community.
The community sees SCO's lawsuits against Novell and IBM as unjustified attacks on the system it promotes as an alternative to commercial products such as Unix and Windows. Novell, IBM, Red Hat and other companies built products for sale around the Linux.
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SUCK IT, SCO! POS OS!
SCO can go f*** themselves. They’ve been a waste for a long time.
Here's hoping that's so. Some of the growing momentum with Linux was lost when SCO started making noise with all of this back in 2003.
SCO has a business plan, like the RIAA and MPAA, that says they will be able to sue anyone they like to make a profit for themselves.
Ping!
Hey Nick. Yep, even though the CEO of Novell at the time of the transfer, and the top negotiators of the deal testified it was their intent to transfer the copyrights, somehow the court awarded them to Novell. None of the true history really matters though, so long as IBM and Novell now get to give away *nix capability to the entire world for free though right?
http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_14650897?source=pkg
The top two negotiators for Novell Inc. in its 1995 deal to sell the Unix computer operating system testified Wednesday their former employer believed it sold the copyrights to that software along with the entire Unix business. Along with Tuesday’s testimony from former Novell CEO and Chairman Robert Frankenberg, the Wednesday session bolstered The SCO Group’s arguments that it, and not Novell, owns the Unix copyrights.
“I assumed and I intended we were selling the copyrights, as well,” said Thompson, who also testified that his orders from Frankenberg were to sell all of Unix, including the copyrights.
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