[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Just before Christmas last year, Novell announced publicly that
SCO had known for some time that it did not receive all rights and
ownership to UNIX technologies, despite public statements to the
contrary. Novell has made public correspondence between lawyers
representing both Novell and SCO. Read these in their
entirety–they are quite enlightening.“These letters finally start getting to the heart of the
mysterious ‘Amendment No. 2’ which SCO referred to publicly in a
press release dated June 6, claiming it transferred ‘everything’ to
them and which Novell claimed never existed–Novell’s legal team is
adamant that no copy ever existed in their files. Bruce Lowry,
director of public relations at Novell told me today, ‘We’ve
acknowledged publicly that Amendment 2 is valid, although we have
not said we agree with SCO’s interpretation of Amendment 2. As we
said on December 22, we believe we’ve retained the ownership of
UNIX copyrights and have registered those with the US Copyright
Office…'”