Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights!

[Boland, John]

which old witch? 

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Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 5:29 PM
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Subject: Re: Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights!

Ding dong the witch is dead.

On 10/08/07, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> From Groklaw:
> http://www.groklaw.net/
>  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)
>
>
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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.
>
> 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.
>
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