A federal judge ruled the copyrights to the Unix operating system belong to Novell, not SCO, after years of aggressive litigation by SCO.
Some final matters of law still need to be hammered out, but it looks like a decision handed down in Utah by federal judge Dale Kimball has finally knocked out SCO's claims to Unix copyrights.
Their lawsuit against Novell has drawn a 102-page ruling from the bench, and as Pamela Jones at
Groklaw
"However, the court clearly determined that SCO owns the copyrights to the technology developed or derived by SCO after Novell transferred the assets to SCO in 1995," said SCO. Both Microsoft and Sun licensed Unix technology from SCO in 2003. Neither licensee has released a statement yet regarding the Utah court's decision. The stock market has weighed in with its opinion, and the verdict from Wall Street has been a bigger bloodbath than the last Harry Potter novel.
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