[KLUG Advocacy] And the SCO story gets stranger and stranger....

Adam Williams advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
28 May 2003 13:59:01 -0400


> NOVELL HITS BACK AT SCO ON UNIX CLAIMS

"Importantly, and contrary to SCO's assertions, SCO is not the owner of
the UNIX copyrights. Not only would a quick check of U.S. Copyright
Office records reveal this fact, but a review of the asset transfer
agreement between Novell and SCO confirms it. To Novell's knowledge, the
1995 agreement governing SCO's purchase of UNIX from Novell does not
convey to SCO the associated copyrights. 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."

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-28-2003/0001954556&EDATE=

Who would have thought it could actually be Novell that ends this
nonsense?  Hard to believe technologically, politically, and even in
some strange way meta-physically.  But there it is.