MozillaQuest: Novell Motion to Dismiss Holds Key to SCO Anti-Linux Claims | Linux Today

MozillaQuest: Novell Motion to Dismiss Holds Key to SCO Anti-Linux Claims

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 19, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“SCO (SCOX) could end up suffering a fatal blow to its
anti-Linux war if the United States District Court for Utah grants
Novell’s Motion to Dismiss the SCO v Novell lawsuit. In its
anti-Linux war, SCO claims that it owns the copyrights to some Unix
code that SCO alleges has been placed in the GNU-Linux operating
system. The primary thrust to Novell’s Motion to Dismiss the SCO v
Novell lawsuit is that SCO does not own any Unix copyrights.

“On the other hand, refusal of the Utah Court to dismiss the SCO
v Novell lawsuit could mean that SCO does indeed have a claim to
the Unix copyrights. A decision in this lawsuit could come anytime
after SCO files its reply to Novell’s Motion to Dismiss. Or, the
trial court judge could ask the parties to file additional
documents and/or schedule the matter for oral argument–thus
delaying disposal of Novell’s Motion to Dismiss…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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