Free or Stolen: That is the Question

 

from Investor's Business Daily for Wed 26 Aug. 2009:

decision that

originally

and that

copyrighted Unix

 



And the question is moot.  There are distros of linux based entirely on
open-source software, and these distros have been around for decades.  Some
commercial distros might be in trouble though.  -Dave

 



Yup. Anyone who goes to the trouble of paying attorneys to argue over
this in court is truly clueless.

 



    Well, that's my attitude, too. ISTM the Linux horse has been out of
the barn far too long.

 

balvenieman@invalid.net (Balvenieman) wrote:

Sigh.  Who writes these things?  I don't think there is any
question that AT&T sold the copyrights to Novell, so the court
decision didn't "give" Novell anything, it merely affirmed
that Novell had not, in fact, transferred the copyrights to
SCO.

While this is certainly a setback for Novell, and buys SCO some
time (or, given how well SCO has argued its case before, some
more rope) there's quite a lot of evidence out there from the
various legal wrangling so far.  

It'll be interesting to see how SCO tries to show that Novell
sold it something, in the face of extensive documentation to
the contrary. ;)

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