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Novell Wins vs. SCO

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-wait-a-minute dept.

Aim Here writes "According to Novell's website, and the Salt Lake Tribune, the jury in the SCO v. Novell trial has returned a verdict: Novell owns the Unix copyrights. This also means that SCO's case against IBM must surely collapse too, and likely the now bankrupt SCO group itself. It's taken 7 years, but the US court system has eventually done the right thing ..." No doubt this is the last we will ever hear of any of this.

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  1. Novel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hurray! Just in time for Novell to be bought out by Microsoft.

  2. Winning in this case... by weinrich · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...is like declaring victory because you're the last person to hit the ground in the plane crash. How much has this cost Novell and IBM in real $$'s? With SCO bankrupt how can either expect to recoup any of the 7 years of court costs?

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  3. Re:Seven years for eight hours work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It died alright: http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=SCOXQ

  4. Re:Organ sale? by whisper_jeff · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I realize you were making a joke (and a funny one at that) but, let's be serious - the people behind thing (Darl first and foremost among them) made TONS of money off of this. To imply that he (and his ilk) are stupid is missing the point. Just because he ran his business into the ground doesn't mean that he's run his own finances into the ground. Who cares about the success or failure of a company when you're sipping champagne on your yacht?