[ale] SCO loses again: jury says Novell owns UNIX SVRXcopyrights

[Greg Freemyer]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On 03/31/2010 03:52 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> Of course in the meantime there are rumors M$ wants to buy Novell.
>> Novell owns UNIX so if SCO can’t sue due to lack of standing…
>
> I certainly hope that those rumors are false.  Or at least, if they are
> true, maybe Novell will be halfway decent and release the rest of the
> non-ancient UNIX source code before being bought?  That would be nice.

I'd hope that IBM would step in as a white knight if MS tried to force
Novell into a purchase.

Remember that Novell is public, so other than poison pills, etc. they
can't do much to fight off a suitor.

Greg