SCO vs. Novell: Come See Me in Five Years

“If you care about open source software (OSS) market trends and
investment issues related to OSS for the IT industry’s largest
companies, the OSS blogosphere is telling you that you should be
excited about a Utah Federal District Court ruling on August 10.
The judge ruled against SCO (SCOX) and in favor of Novell on a
number of claims in a five-year-old court case over who owns
35-year-old UNIX copyrights related to a 12-year-old asset sale.
But IBM, Microsoft and any company that runs Linux is also
involved.

“Remember, this ruling came down in Utah, where Novell was
formed (although it is now based on Cambridge, Massachusetts),
where SCO is located (although it was formed in Santa Cruz,
California) and where the court still distributes forms in
WordPerfect. Also remember today’s SCO is not the 1995 SCO, and
today’s Novell is not the 1995 Novell (but that would take too long
to explain). These factoids could all become relevant in any appeal
process…”

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