Novel vs. SCO

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

Seth Gordon wrote:
| Jerry Feldman wrote:
| > Today's edition of Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net) has an item in it
| > quoting the United Linux contract that was signed by both SuSE (now owned
| > by Novell) and Caldera (eg. SCO). Essentially, what is happening is that
| > SuSE filed a request for arbitration a while back. But, the piece
| > essentially says that UnitedLinux members give up any claims of copyright
| > over the contents of the United Linux kernel.
|
| When final judgements are entered in _SCO v. IBM_, _SCO v. Novell_, and
| _Red Hat v. SCO_, and all the appeals are exhausted (or when SCO runs
| out of money), the Linux community will lose a valuable source of free
| entertainment.

Yeah, but that'll probably be after  we're  all  long  gone
from  this  world.   (Of  course,  some of us really aren't
living in it right now.)


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