Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights!

[kenc51]

Novell owns the UNIX SVRX and UnixWare copyrights; Novell has the right, at its sole discretion, to direct SCO to waive its claims against IBM and Sequent; and SCO owes Novell payment for the UNIX SVRX licences it sold to Microsoft and Sun.

More info here:
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Novell-377.pdf
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... 0165237718
http://theinquirer.net/?article=41632

We're one step closer to seeing SCO falling off it's high horse

[stev]

[kenc51]

SHAREHOLDERS are abandoning the anti-Linux bad boy SCO faster than a well-greased leopard on its way to a wildebeest convention.


According to Ars Technica, investors are dumping SCO stock, and the outfit has lost 71 per cent of its value over the course of the day.

Source: http://theinquirer.net/?article=41672

More Here: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... mmets.html


SCOX Stock for past 5 days


It's a GNU World

[kenc51]

Here's the title of the press release:

"The SCO Group Files Chapter 11 to Protect Assets as It Addresses Potential Financial and Legal Challenges", which you can find here. They say reorganization "ensures business as usual."

Source: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... 4152904577

According to Groklaw.net, here are the main companies that SCO owe money to and how much

* Amici LLC ($500,650.73),
* Boies Schiller (287,256.39),
* Canopy Group ($139,895.00),
* Gre Mountain Heights Property ($132,502.00),
* Microsoft Licensing, Inc. ($125,575.00),
* Sun Microsystems, Inc. ($50,000.00),
* Veritas Software ($37,881.33),
* Intel ($23,302.11),
* Fujitsu Services ($25,302.11),
* HP-Nonstop Royalty Accounting ($25,302.11...hmm. exactly the same amount for three entities),
* Unisys ($25,302.11 - a fourth),
* KSJ Consulting ($21,781.25),
* 4Front Technologies ($10,417.50),
* Silverman Heller Associates ($10,352.35),
* Madson & Austin ($8,478.32),
* Randd Strategic ($7,026.79),
* Sage Forensic Accounting ($6,221.00),
* Profile Consulting ($5,450.00),
* Sun Microsystems Inc. Software Royalty Accounting Group ($5,414.40) and
* AmLaw Discovery ($5,399.57).

And don't forget the Linux community! SCO owe them a big apology, not that we'll ever see one

[Zertz]

The exact same amount for 3 different companies looks really fishy

[stev]

The exact same amount for 3 different companies looks really fishy

Possibly not if those companies used a basic package without any extras. Plus, those companies could have requested a selected number of licenses to use. Sort of like a block of licenses befroe the amount was used up.