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A 1995 contract sheds light on conflicting Unix ownership claims by Novell and SCO, SCO gets broad rights to Unix, but Novell keeps copyrights, patents. Agreement called murky. [CNET News.com]
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A 1995 contract obtained by CNET News.com shows SCO Group receiving broad rights to the Unix operating system but Novell retaining copyrights and patents. A CNET article by Stephen Shankland, Staff Writer, CNET News. Published on June 4, 2003 3:01 PM PDT.
Contract illuminates Novell-SCO spat
A 1995 contract sheds light on the conflicting Unix ownership claims by Novell and SCO Group, with SCO receiving broad rights to the operating system but Novell retaining copyrights and patents.
According to a copy of the contract obtained by CNET News.com,
Critiques Novell history, praises SuSE buy, considers potential of SCO suit against Novell, praises Groklaw website for legal analysis. [ZDNet CNET News.com]
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At Groklaw you can find lawyers and code hackers busily engaged in pulling the bones out of every pronouncement that falls from the mouth of Darl McBride, CEO of SCO, and his merry men.
Scoring SCO's legal games
: Nov 24, 2003 1:19:00 PM
COMMENTARY--If organizations could feel grumpy about the past, Novell would have the blues so bad BB King should write the company anthem. Here is an outfit who owned corporate networking just at the point the market went stratospheric. Netware
Novell has rebuffed SCO's claim to hold Unix copyrights and patents, claiming to hold them, and discloses SCO has been begging Novell for rights to IP that SCO claims it already has. [The Register]
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Novell torpedoes SCO's Unix IP claim
, 28th May 2003 22:18 GMT
In the latest installment of "The Canopy Family" - a drama to rival the The Magnificent Ambersons - Novell has rebuffed SCO's claim to hold Unix copyrights and patents.
SCO recently filed a billion dollar suit against IBM, claiming
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Wall Street Journal reports today: Novell claims it owns rights to Unix OS; may cause problems in SCO lawsuit against IBM and Linux community. Novell is ally of open source community. [The Inquirer]
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Too much agreement kills a chat - Eldridge Cleaver
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Press Release: Defending its interests in developing services to run on Linux, Novell issues dual challenge to SCO on recent claims of Unix ownership and possible intellectual property rights claims for Linux. [Novell]
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Novell Challenges SCO Position, Reiterates Support for Linux
PROVO, Utah May 28, 2003 Defending its interests in developing services to operate on the Linux platform, Novell today issued a dual challenge to The SCO Group over its recent statements regarding its UNIX ownership and potential
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