[ Thanks to I R A
Darth Aggie for this link. ]
“Defending its interests in developing services to operate on
the Linux platform, Novell today issued a dual challenge to The SCO
Group over its recent statements regarding its UNIX ownership and
potential intellectual property rights claims over Linux.“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…'”