Of SCO, UNIX, and Linux

I will go into more detail when I am not posting from my n800, but short version is SCO has officially had its legs swept out from under them by Novell, as it was just ruled SCO does not own the copyrights to UNIX, as they claimed.

Will post links etc later and a more detailed post of my opinions etc. But this is a step in the right direction at least, or most likely anyways. Gotta do some research on something before I post my full opinion.

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Agreed. Now that I am waiting for some of the champagne to work its way through my system before I head home I can try to put my thoughts in a more through form.

It took me a while to find what I was thinking of that would put this firmly in the good news camp, and it is here...

http://www.openinventionnetwork.com

Essentially Novell is a member of a group that has agreed to share patents and not to sue each other for their use in open source creation in order to promote the open source movement and community.

As such, the move to firmly put UNIX copyrights in Novell's hands can in general be considered a good one IMO at the moment. And if they apply that "IP" to the work of the OIN, I will be even mroe firmly in that camp. While they are still not on my good list, they have made strides to not be on the bad list at least, and thus far other than a certain agreement which will go unnamed, they have made good strides in supporting what they say with their actions.

At any rate a few links for yall...

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4446359842.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...royalties.html

So in short I am certainly celebrating that this would happen, not that I think the lawsuit would have gone anywhere if it had been proven otherwise. I also find it funny that SCO now officially owes Novell 95% of all Unix licensing fees, including those used to fund said lawsuit crud as paid for by MS and Sun.

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