Novell does not want to be like SCO
Novell has promised that it will not be like SCO and judge everyone and everyone for copyright infringement of the Unix operating system, which, as the court decided last week , belong to it. Novell representatives say there are no portions of Unix code in the Linux kernel, so there is no reason for litigation at all.
“We’re not interested in filing a lawsuit because of Unix,” said Bruce Lowry, the company's top public relations official. “We don't do Unix anymore.” The ruling means that all Linux users can now breathe a sigh of relief, Lowry said.
As you know, on Friday, a decision was made on the Novell lawsuit against SCO. The court ruled that Novell has all rights to Unix and UnixWare, not SCO. Thus, all the numerous claims that filed SCO against large corporations, forcing them to pay royalties for using Linux, become meaningless. Novell is not going to repeat the “exploits” of SCO and will not engage in this activity. Bruce Lowry promised that Novell will not change its decision in the future.
The Novell and SCO trials are still pending. There are a few unfinished fragments left, one of which involves payments received by SCO from Microsoft and Sun for Unix licenses. Since the licenses, as it turned out, belong to Novell, the court may oblige the SCO to give this money to the true copyright holder. However, even this fact will not force Novell to file new lawsuits, Lowrie says.
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When all fragments of the case are closed, only then will SCO be granted the right to appeal. However, SCO has not yet decided whether this makes sense. Most likely, there will be no appeal.
Independent analysts are also convinced that the appeal does not make sense. “It's over,” says Pamela Jones, author and editor of Groklaw. - SCO could not find any violations even when it was shown the full source code. No one else will find anything either. ” In her opinion, the successor of the SCO case may not be Novell at all, but Microsoft. Judging by the statements of Steve Ballmer , this is a very real prospect. He recently claimed that Linux infringes more than 235 patents owned by Microsoft.
However, all these threats may be unfounded. Even in this case, the actions of Microsoft are understandable. “They make billions of dollars a year on Windows ... Any minute, second, or day on which they can slow down the spread of a competitor already makes them profit,” says Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. He also hints that a $ 16.6 million deal between Microsoft and SCO about the Unix license, which Microsoft never used for commercial purposes, was made only to finance SCO for legal battles with IBM, and also to generate FUD ( fear, uncertainty and doubt) regarding Linux. Of course, Microsoft refutes these allegations.
“We’re not interested in filing a lawsuit because of Unix,” said Bruce Lowry, the company's top public relations official. “We don't do Unix anymore.” The ruling means that all Linux users can now breathe a sigh of relief, Lowry said.
As you know, on Friday, a decision was made on the Novell lawsuit against SCO. The court ruled that Novell has all rights to Unix and UnixWare, not SCO. Thus, all the numerous claims that filed SCO against large corporations, forcing them to pay royalties for using Linux, become meaningless. Novell is not going to repeat the “exploits” of SCO and will not engage in this activity. Bruce Lowry promised that Novell will not change its decision in the future.
The Novell and SCO trials are still pending. There are a few unfinished fragments left, one of which involves payments received by SCO from Microsoft and Sun for Unix licenses. Since the licenses, as it turned out, belong to Novell, the court may oblige the SCO to give this money to the true copyright holder. However, even this fact will not force Novell to file new lawsuits, Lowrie says.
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When all fragments of the case are closed, only then will SCO be granted the right to appeal. However, SCO has not yet decided whether this makes sense. Most likely, there will be no appeal.
Independent analysts are also convinced that the appeal does not make sense. “It's over,” says Pamela Jones, author and editor of Groklaw. - SCO could not find any violations even when it was shown the full source code. No one else will find anything either. ” In her opinion, the successor of the SCO case may not be Novell at all, but Microsoft. Judging by the statements of Steve Ballmer , this is a very real prospect. He recently claimed that Linux infringes more than 235 patents owned by Microsoft.
However, all these threats may be unfounded. Even in this case, the actions of Microsoft are understandable. “They make billions of dollars a year on Windows ... Any minute, second, or day on which they can slow down the spread of a competitor already makes them profit,” says Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. He also hints that a $ 16.6 million deal between Microsoft and SCO about the Unix license, which Microsoft never used for commercial purposes, was made only to finance SCO for legal battles with IBM, and also to generate FUD ( fear, uncertainty and doubt) regarding Linux. Of course, Microsoft refutes these allegations.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/13259/
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