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Article: SCO's Back in the Game There's Nothing Much Good for Novell in the Latest Court Ruling.
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- Client Server News
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- July 21, 2008
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Linux users might have to start reaching for their checkbooks again because SCO, Linux' worst nightmare, is back.
The Utah court that decided a year ago that Novell, not SCO, owned Unix (SVRx) - although SCO was under the impression it had bought the operating system from Novell in 1995 - has now decided that SCO owns all right and title, free and clear, to UnixWare, which is merely a later model of Unix SVR4.
Novell, it said, has no interest in UnixWare; its ownership is limited to the old, outdated SVRx widgetry; and SCO has every right to license SVRx IP as a roll-up, incidental to UnixWare.
The court also said Novell couldn't run ...