Novell Asks Court to Separate SCOsource Money

clusterix writes "Groklaw has posted Novell's answer to SCO's slander of title complaint. In it, Novell produces many counter claims. The most eye-catching is the claim for the revenue from the SCOsource licenses bought by Microsoft and Sun and others. Novell states that they must be SVRX licenses which entitles them to 95% of revenue in royalties. They further request a trust to be constructed to hold the revenue until the case is decided. It is hard to see how the judge could deny such a request to protect the money which will likely bankrupt SCO."

Comments

Re:It's hard to see...?

[wcdw]

Completely disagree. If SCO is bankrupt without the funds in question, and those funds do belong to Novell, then Novell stands to lose considerably if/when SCO goes bankrupt anyway.

Given that situation, it's not at all unreasonable for at least SOME of that money to be physically sequestered.

Beautiful irony

[tamnir]

This has the potential of finishing off SCO for good. The way things have been going with this case, I don't have so much hope that will be the end, but if it could be, what a grand finale that would be! Not only will we have the satisfaction to see the litigious bastards go down, but more importantly, beautiful irony, the money Microsoft and Sun had invested in hurting Linux will end up in the pockets of a Linux champion! Talk about karma...