Grant A.
December 26th, 2008, 08:37 AM
As you may know, IBM is a major contributor to the Linux Kernel (If not the largest), and helps out a lot in the FOSS community. Well, I was reading about the SCO v. IBM and SCO v. Novell cases and discovered this little tidbit of information:
SCO was quick to dismiss Novell's claims. The same day, during a conference call to discuss SCO's quarterly financial results, SCO CEO Darl McBride said "We see this as a fraudulent filing of copyright notices ... and we'll take the appropriate measures as necessary with our legal team." SCO made good on this threat on January 20, 2004, when it filed SCO v. Novell. On August 10, 2007, Judge Kimball issued a ruling which says in part "the court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights." This decision is expected to impact the SCO v. IBM since the ruling states that Novell "is entitled, at its sole discretion, to direct SCO to waive its claims against IBM and Sequent".[43][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_v_IBM#Novell_enters_the_controversy
Why is Novell not jumping at the chance to aid a fellow Linux Kernel contributor? I mean, without IBM, a good number of the Linux Kernel's features wouldn't exist.
This all seems very strange to me, I am very pro-Novell, but this just seems so... weird. Could they possibly have an ulterior motive?
SCO was quick to dismiss Novell's claims. The same day, during a conference call to discuss SCO's quarterly financial results, SCO CEO Darl McBride said "We see this as a fraudulent filing of copyright notices ... and we'll take the appropriate measures as necessary with our legal team." SCO made good on this threat on January 20, 2004, when it filed SCO v. Novell. On August 10, 2007, Judge Kimball issued a ruling which says in part "the court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights." This decision is expected to impact the SCO v. IBM since the ruling states that Novell "is entitled, at its sole discretion, to direct SCO to waive its claims against IBM and Sequent".[43][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_v_IBM#Novell_enters_the_controversy
Why is Novell not jumping at the chance to aid a fellow Linux Kernel contributor? I mean, without IBM, a good number of the Linux Kernel's features wouldn't exist.
This all seems very strange to me, I am very pro-Novell, but this just seems so... weird. Could they possibly have an ulterior motive?