SCO ordered to pay!
21 luglio 2008, 1:01 News , Open Source July 21, 2008, 1:01
SCO Group has been ordered to pay two and a half million dollars in favor of Novell on the thorny issue of the UNIX copyrights.
From what we read and wrote in the last twelve months, the sentence was more than expected.
None of the people I know would never have bet a euro on the success of this misbegotten adventure in which SCO seems to have plunged headlong out of desperation more than for any real conviction.
Please remember that the same has been dragging in court SCO Novell: in some ways manufacturers OpenServer have gambled ... and lost.
We make a brief summary of the issue: in 1995, SCO and Novell enter into a contract providing for a right of SCO 5% of all proceeds from sales of licenses for UNIX. In violation of this agreement, SCO has continued to require 100% of such rights, which in recent years has used inter alia to fund the legal campaign against Linux other absurd! Novell's win opens up a huge hole in a desperate project that SCO would have liked to write off their balance sheets through a complex bankruptcy and - in some respects - convoluted legal battle, to show that the source codes of Linux contain large portions of code his property. For this reason, SCO has called to court companies like IBM, Red Hat and Novell for the note.
Here is the news source, where you can find a PDF containing the original sentence:
Judge rules in SCO v. Kimball. Novell! Here it is [PDF] at last! I have not read it yet myself, just Quickly skimmed it enough to see That SCO Owes Novell some money ($ 2,547,817 plus interest Probably - SCO can oppose - agreement from the Sun) and It Had no right to enter into the Sun agreement, but it did have the right to enter into the Microsoft and other SCOsource agreements. Requests for attorneys fees are separate, and That part comes next. Then appeals. I know you want to see it Immediately, so let's read it together, and after it's clear, I'll come back and explain some more.
