THE SCO GROUP was issued with a dual challenge by Novell today over who owns Unix and its intellectual property rights claims, confirming an earlier Wall St Journal story. Novell has upped the ante against SCO, accusing it of attempting to "extort" money out of the Linux community.
In a statement Novell said that it didn't believe SCO's claim that it owned the copyright on Unix System V, and said the purchase agreement between it and SCO in 1995 did not transfer such rights to the firm. Novell said, it had asked SCO to back up its assertion that some Unix System V was copied into Linux.
It wrote a letter to SCO asking it to clarify those claims. CEO Jack Messman wrote that to his company's knowledge, SCO buying Unix from Novelll did not transfer the associated copyrights. He said: "We believe it unlikely that SCO can demonstrate that it has any ownership interest whatsoever in those copyrights. Apparently tou share this view, since... you have repeatedly asked Novell to transfer the copyrights to SCO, requests that Novell has rejected".
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In a statement Novell said that it didn't believe SCO's claim that it owned the copyright on Unix System V, and said the purchase agreement between it and SCO in 1995 did not transfer such rights to the firm. Novell said, it had asked SCO to back up its assertion that some Unix System V was copied into Linux.
It wrote a letter to SCO asking it to clarify those claims. CEO Jack Messman wrote that to his company's knowledge, SCO buying Unix from Novelll did not transfer the associated copyrights. He said: "We believe it unlikely that SCO can demonstrate that it has any ownership interest whatsoever in those copyrights. Apparently tou share this view, since... you have repeatedly asked Novell to transfer the copyrights to SCO, requests that Novell has rejected".
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So buying them out is not a good option, not unless you want many other companies that are going down to sue them just to get some money out of them to save there own arse.
IBM might well buy out SCO if the lawsuit goes SCO's way, and the cost of that lawsuit is more than it would cost to actually buy out SCO. Its cheaper for IBM to just buy them outright and then end the lawsuit.
But I am sure IBM would rather not buy them, and would rather see SCO humilated in court, which we all know is what is going to happen
Its nice to see a major player like them step in and offer some support.
I really can't wait to see where this goes.. it is getting very exciting. The thing is, the lawsuit has to be bull because companies like Novell (which may not be as big as they were, but are still huge) would not be staking their future and reputations on it.
SCO deserve to die - they have turned their back on the community which they made money off for so long, and attempted to bad mouth Linux and even its creator. I hope they get shot down in flames.
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