Posted by: Anonymous
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on July 20, 2008 09:33 AM
Santa Cruz Operation (and it should be repeated that SCO Group is NOT Santa Cruz Operation) made a perfectly legitimate deal: they bought the UNIX business from Novell, and the rights to continue to develop Unixware and Openserver. They never needed the copyrights on System V for this, because they actually, you know, were trying to make a real product.
It's only when Darl and his cronies decided to shift their business strategy to litigation, accusing people of infringing their code without showing what code it was, even in contradiction to their own hired experts, that they, you know, needed copyrights.
And the key point here is that it is good that Novell still owns the copyrights, because they have said what we all know: Linux is clean.
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SCO did not make a bad deal.
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 76.113.35.31] on July 20, 2008 09:33 AMIt's only when Darl and his cronies decided to shift their business strategy to litigation, accusing people of infringing their code without showing what code it was, even in contradiction to their own hired experts, that they, you know, needed copyrights.
And the key point here is that it is good that Novell still owns the copyrights, because they have said what we all know: Linux is clean.
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