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

Janyne Kizer janyne_kizer at ncsu.edu
Wed May 28 11:57:26 EDT 2003


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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Janyne Kizer
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NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
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