Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Siblings? Novell vrs SCO

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Part of the interesting information was the linked article on the same 
page about the battle going on in SCO's parent company right now for 
control with everyone saying Noorda is no longer mentally fit and 
everyone claiming what he would want.

>But the one thing the article *does* make clear is that the only
>connection between Novell and the Canopy Group was Ray Noorda, who
>bailed on Novell back in 1996 (slightly late in the day, but so it
>goes).  Noorda used to control Novell, but now he doesn't.  Noorda
>used to control everything in the Canopy group, but apparently doesn't
>do that now, either.
>  
>
They made it clear that that was the main link but there is a lot of 
other intertwining since they've shared the same parent company and no 
doubt this relation played a part in the licensing of technology between 
the two.

>SCO is really a non-issue at this point.  They have a losing court
>case against IBM and they know it.  By dragging out final certainty on
>that, they have managed to get some nuisance settlements out of some
>other companies.  Lawyers have made some money on this, but the irony
>of the case now is that IBM has found ways to make the SCO case a way
>to get information on who was doing what when behind the scenes in the
>Linux universe.  When IBM has gotten the info it wants, it will choose
>whether to squish SCO like a bug in court, or, if the lawyer fees for
>that are high enough, suck up the dessicated remains of SCO for maybe
>as much as $100 million or so.
>  
>
They always had a lossing court case. I'm not someone that follows court 
cases so I really don't care. Regardless of the outcome I'll keep using 
Linux. SCO has committed corporate suicide. The only reason IBM, Novell, 
etc might bother buying them out is just to close any dangling chances 
of someone like Microsoft or Sun buying up SCO and making these legal 
hassles an ongoing thorn in their side.

People better be careful as Sun's source code becomes public. It'd be a 
great way to ambush Linux or really any competitior. Just claim that 
they used your source code and then put them through a nightmare of 
court cases to prove that they haven't. Anyone could do it so it'd be 
the ultimate flag to wave. Their patent scheme is already leaning this 
way. "You can use our patents but if you do your code is CDDL licensed - 
we own it."

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Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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