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Monday, August 13, 2007

SCO Goes Down in Flames

According to Ryan Paul of ars technica, Federal district judge Dale Kimball ruled Friday that Novell owns the Unix copyrights and that SCO owes Novell for royalties SCO received from Microsoft and Sun. If this ruling stands, it will be the death knell for SCO.

Now where are we on Linux?

Brett Trout

Novell Unix SCO Microsoft Sun

Labels: copyright, software

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