[TriLUG] Novell torpedo's SCO with shocker: *we* own unix -not you!

[David A. Cafaro]

>From what I have read SCO's license includes the right to re-license the
code to others, so they can license to other parties the same rights
they have from Novell (or close there too).

-David

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 11:57, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> OK, this is a question for you.  If SCO owns no Unix intellectual
> properly, what did Microsoft buy last week? 
> http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1007528.html?tag=nl  Am I missing
> something?  I mean, Novell claims to hold the patents and Microsoft
> claimed to license SCO's patents...
> 
> Jon Carnes wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 11:31, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > 
> > > I think that's one of the issues that makes people so mad about this --
> > > SCO won't say what portions are in dispute.  Which makes people suspect
> > > even more that the whole purpose of SCO's actions is FUD -- just like
> > > Novell's Messman says in the press release at
> > > http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html
> > >
> > I've been trying to get through to that site for over an hour now...
> > It's totally /.-ed.
> > 
> > >From what I can tell from other stories (and Hunters play-by-play in IRC
> > of the SCO financial conference phone call), SCO really only has rights
> > to re-license UNIX system V trademarks and source code.
> > 
> > Novell holds the original rights to license the same Source code and
> > copyrights, however, Novell's take on the situation is that the code is
> > Open, and has always been Open! So no need for anyone to license it.
> > 
> > The disputed code that affects Linux is in the code for the IP stack.
> > SCO says they showed it to IBM for use in the AIX operating system and
> > that some of the code filtered its way into the Linux kernel from IBM
> > developers.  IBM disputes this.  Novell says, the code was open anyway!
> > 
> > Novell trumps, as they actually "own" the code if there is an owner...
> > 
> > http://www.perens.com/Articles/SCO/BigLie.html
> > 
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David A. Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net>
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