On Sunday 12 August 2007 11:27, Paul M Foster wrote:
> William Coulter wrote:
> > Now that Novell is the owner of UNIX or UNIXWARE
That is not what the judge said despite what PJ said.
What the judge said is that Novel did not transfer the copyrights to Santa
Cruze Operations so Santa Cruze Operations could not transfer them to Caldera
which could not transfer them to The SCO Group which means that The SCO Group
does not own them. The difference is the BSDi settlement in which that judge
said that he did not believe that AT&T owned the copyrights.
Bottom line SCO does not have the copyrights except for the code SCO wrote.
> > what kind of effect
> > will the deal with MS have on us? What if Novell should go under and MS
> > buys Novell out. What happeneds with UNIX or LINUX?
WAR
As MS has the funds and resources to make life very unpleasant.
BUT! Then we are at war anyway. It just moves from a cold war to a hot war.
Regardless of what PJ says this is not the end or even the beginning of the
end but perhaps it may be the beginning of the end of the beginning.
There is still a trial on SCO vs Novel and the appeal that will surely follow
appealing these partial summary judgments. Then there is the IBM case and its
appeal. Of course if SCO winds an appeal then look for an appeal to the
supreme court at least once. This was is not over. One minor battle has been
won though.
SOTL
> >
> > William
>
> There are some comments on groklaw related to this. The problem is an
> antitrust one. If MS should buy a company like Novell, they would surely
> run into severe antitrust issues. Which is likely why they haven't
> attempted it. Linux stands on its own, and contains (as far as we know)
> completely community-developed code. The only thing it shares with Unix
> is its APIs. "Proprietary" APIs are nearly impossible to defend in court.
>
> Paul
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