Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights!

[Jerry Feldman]

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 Friday, August 10 2007 @ 04:52 PM EDT

Hot off the presses: Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling
[PDF] on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO v. Novell. Here
is what matters most:

    [T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and
UnixWare Copyrights.

That's Aaaaall, Folks!

If anyone can please put this into text for us, that'd be simply great.
I hear there is a filing in IBM also, and we'll get it for your soon.
Here's the docket entry:

    08/10/2007 1077 - NOTICE OF DECISION AND REQUEST FOR STATUS UPDATE.
Signed by Judge Dale A. Kimball on 8-10-07. (sih) (Entered: 08/10/2007)=20


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This is a very important decision for Linux in that it effectively
removes any claim of copyright infringement with respect to Unix code.=20

In any case, I'm about to leave. I'm sure that this will cause a flurry
of motions in the SCO vs. IBM and SCO vs. Red Hat cases.=20

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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