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Follow UsThe battle between SCO Group and Novell over key copyrights of the
OS has ended in favour of Novell. The District Court of Utah
in a recent verdict has ruled that important UNIX copyright ownership
belongs to Novell. From 2003 SCO and Novell were locked in a battle on
UNIX ownership. In 2003 SCO launched a campaign in a bid to enlist
Linux users to pay a licensing fee to it-claiming that some of its IP
has been incorporated in Linux. SCO also claimed that they owned UNIX.
All the while Novell had contended that these statements and claims by
SCO were wrong and actually Novell is the rightful owner of
UNIX. Novell also asserted its stand that it never
transferred UNIX ownership rights to SCO.
Interestingly all these years despite SCO claiming its ownership of
UNIX, it failed to furnish some compelling evidences substantiating its
claims. This verdict favouring Novell is a big relief for the open
source community and analysts see that finally this ownership issue is
done for good.
This verdict obviously is not good news for SCO which filed Chapter 11
Protection in 2008 is seen as blow and many feel that SCO neither have
the financial bandwidth nor any solid evidence to pursue the ownership
case any longer. Analysts also feel SCO will lose investor
confidence as it has failed to prove its stand time and again. Post the
verdict Novell in a statement said that it remains committed to
promoting
including by defending Linux on the intellectual property front.
According to Ron Hovsepian, president and CEO, Novell, "This decision
is good news for Novell, for Linux, and for the
source community. We have long contended that this effort against
Linux has no foundation, and we are pleased that the jury, in a
unanimous decision, agrees. I am proud of Novell's role in protecting
the best interests of Linux and the open source community."
Novell owns UNIX copyright
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