Would SCO die already ....

[RadioPatrol]

all they have going for them is the Lawsuits over Unix;

SCO to get $100M bankruptcy bailout; McBride out if deal goes through

SCO has been on the defensive since 2003, when the company filed a $5 billion lawsuit against IBM, alleging that it improperly contributed some of SCO's Unix intellectual property for use in Linux. SCO then also sued Novell Inc., charging that the company had falsely claimed to own the legal rights to Unix. Last August, SCO was handed a big defeat when a U.S. District Court judge in Utah ruled that Novell is, in fact, the owner of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights. The judge also ruled that as a result, Novell could direct SCO to revoke its copyright infringement claims against IBM.

Novell wins rights to Unix copyrights

SCO also owes Novell for licensing revenue paid by Sun and Microsoft

August 11, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Novell Inc. won a significant ruling in its lengthy battle with The SCO Group Inc. on Friday.

A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, found that Novell is the owner of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights, dismissing SCO's charges of slander and breach of contract.

The judge also ruled that SCO owes Novell for SCO's licensing revenue from Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. SCO is obligated to pass through to Novell a portion of that revenue, the judge said.

In the ruling, the judge said SCO must pay Novell, but the amount will be determined in a trial, said Pamela Jones, founder and editor of Groklaw, a Web site that follows legal issues related to open-source software.

In another major blow to SCO, the judge said that because Novell is the owner of the Unix copyrights, it can direct SCO to revoke its copyright-infringement claims against IBM Corp. and Sequent. Novell has done so already, but SCO has not honored that direction.

"SCO can't sue IBM for copyright infringement on copyrights it doesn't own," Jones said.

The ruling is good news for organizations that use open-source software products, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation. "From the perspective of someone who is adopting open-source solutions to run in the enterprise, it proves to them that the industry is going to defend the platform, and that when organizations attack it from a legal perspective, that the industry collectively will defend it," he said.

The decision is "abysmal" news for SCO, according to Zemlin. "Their future is looking bleak," he said.

SCO, which may appeal Friday's decision, did not reply to requests for comment.

In a statement, Novell said the ruling cut out the core of SCO's case and in the process eliminated SCO's threat to the Linux community.

 

[MrX]

Seems like they are SOL....

 

[RadioPatrol]

Seems like they are SOL....

they have been on life support for 3-6 yrs now .... they only thing going for SCO is the lawsuits ....... M$ gave them a big cash infusion about 3 yrs ago, supposedly "Licensing" patents ..... it turns out SCO doesn't own but that kept the company going - some say to continue scaring potential users away from Linux, this latest is just another nail in a failing company


I am surprised anyone would invest $100 mil into a company - that does not appear to own the rights to anything .... it thought it did I guess some is betting on a favorable turn over, on an appeal