News from PANUG/BizNix - May 28, 2003
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NOVELL TO THE RESCUE

Patrick Corrigan tells us that Novell issued a press
release this morning about the SCO affair. The first
two paragraphs says it all:

First, Novell challenged SCO's assertion that it owns
the copyrights and patents to UNIX System V, pointing
out that the asset purchase agreement entered into
between Novell and SCO in 1995 did not transfer these
rights to SCO. Second, Novell sought from SCO facts to 
back up its assertion that certain UNIX System V code
has been copied into Linux. Novell communicated these
concerns to SCO via a letter (text below) from Novell
Chairman and CEO Jack Messman in response to SCO making
these claims.

"To Novell's knowledge, the 1995 agreement governing
SCO's purchase of UNIX from Novell does not convey to
SCO the associated copyrights," Messman said in the
letter. "We believe it unlikely that SCO can demonstrate
that it has any ownership interest whatsoever in those
copyrights. Apparently you share this view, since over
the last few months you have repeatedly asked Novell to
transfer the copyrights to SCO, requests that Novell has
rejected."

The Novell press release is here:
http://panug.org/17

Slashdot has a related story that blasts SCO:

http://panug.org/18


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