UTAH HERE WE RETURN!

[strredwolf]

THE STAY IS LIFTED!  THE STAY IS LIFTED!  NOVELL WON THE LIFTING OF THE AUTOMATIC STAY!  SCO HAS TO GO TO TRIAL IN UTAH!  THE STAY IS LIFTED!

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[raemonde.livejournal.com]

] I... don't know what that means. <=|

-Rob

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Less SCO drama, more Novell action.

[felixnminerva.livejournal.com]

Who are these people and why is this a good thing? What does Novell do?

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

SCO was a old-school Unix company named Santa Cruz Operations, then bought by Linux touting Caldera and the renamed merged setup is called simply "SCO". They saw a decline in sales, dropped Linux, and started on the RIAA path of suing for a profit -- contending that Linux violated their copyrights on the old UNIX system code.

Problem is, SCO doesn't own the copyrights. Novell does. Two years and several million dollars down the drain, a judge made it offical that Novell owns Unix. SCO then ran to another judge and filed bankruptcy, which prevented a trial into how much SCO owes for the charade... until now when said bankruptcy judge said to Novell "Go back to trial, I want to know what you're owed."

The ruling means that SCO's boneheaded move in suing IBM, RedHat, Autozone, etc for violating copyrights it doesn't own will bite them HARD. Think Cookie Monster devowering a cookie hard. Nothing left!

And to answer your other question: Novell does file/printer networking initially, and owns a Linux distribution called SuSE. They have other holdings in various computer areas, and have been pushing Linux as of late. The legally own the old SysV UNIX copyrights and software.

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Of course, Cookie monster doesn't devour cookies as much as he fragments them into a pile off camera. Messiest eater ever.