Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights!

[bogstad-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Bill Bogstad)]

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> Additionally, since one of the counter claims by Novell in this case is
> some license fees owed to it by SCO, this case could possibly place SCO
> into bankruptcy. I suspect that SCO will have a rescuer since the Unix
> license authority that SCO holds are important to major players, such
> as IBM, Sun, HP, SGI, Microsoft and other commercial Unix vendors.
> (Microsoft is a licensee because of its Microsoft Services for UNIX).

>From my understanding, the reason that the original SCO (not SCOX) and Novell
deal was set up the way it was (i.e. Novell still owns the copyright)
was because
they wanted to retain control of licensing if the original SCO went bankrupt.
I'd guess that condition would also apply to SCOX.   I don't know how the major
UNIX licensees would feel about Novell directly controlling licensing,
but I don't see
a major problem with that.

Bill Bogstad

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