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Novell Proclaims 'We're Not SCO' and We Won't Sue

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-thank-goodness-for-all-that-then dept.

E5Rebel writes "Novell has promised not to sue anybody over the Unix copyrights that a US court last week ruled it owned. They said there was no Unix in Linux and now they are sticking by it. Perhaps they had no option, but Novell deserve praise for taking on the fight with SCO...."

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  1. heh. by apodyopsis · · Score: 0, Troll

    but Novell deserve praise for taking on the fight with SCO....

    whilst they deserve a slap for entering into a pact with the devil?

  2. Re:I believe them... by jkrise · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anyway, once Caldera started all the layoffs after the dot-com boom and SCO merge, a good chunk of engineering ended up at Novell.

    I think that one phrase tells you a lot about why SCO sued people and Novell won't: Novell is a functioning business with a business plan.

    Excuse me... but what has Novell engineered in recent years? It has engineered the acquisition of SuSE; and engineered an unholy suspicious contract with Microsoft.

    None of these engineering efforts require technical acumen.

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