Novel vs. SCO

[sethg at ropine.com (Seth Gordon)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Today's edition of Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net) has an item in it 
> quoting the United Linux contract that was signed by both SuSE (now owned 
> by Novell) and Caldera (eg. SCO). Essentially, what is happening is that 
> SuSE filed a request for arbitration a while back. But, the piece 
> essentially says that UnitedLinux members give up any claims of copyright 
> over the contents of the United Linux kernel. 

When final judgements are entered in _SCO v. IBM_, _SCO v. Novell_, and 
_Red Hat v. SCO_, and all the appeals are exhausted (or when SCO runs 
out of money), the Linux community will lose a valuable source of free 
entertainment.