Re: [flalug] Novell Goes for SCO's Throat

From: jeff (jdavis70@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 21:17:20 EDT


On Tuesday 02 August 2005 09:56 pm, Khepri wrote:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1841965,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K000059
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>
> "What is new is that in its counterclaims, Novell stated that in late
> 2002, SCO repeatedly contacted Novell to try to get the company to work
> with SCO on its SCOsource campaign to get Unix licensing fees from Linux
> users.
>
> Failing that, Novell claims that SCO CEO Darl McBride tried to get
> Novell to amend the APA to give SCO Unix's copyrights. Thus, Novell
> maintains, that SCO knew it didn't have any claim to Unix's copyrights
> from the start.
>
> Novell, in its counterclaims, however, then goes well beyond simply
> asserting its Unix IP (intellectual property) rights."
>
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> SMirk...:P

It is about time something started moving in this case. It seems like decades
have passed with nothing but childish whining from McBride the whole time.

Jeff



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