Scodera drops the other shoe

[dep]

begin  Aaron Grewell's  quote:
| This doesn't have much of anything to do with Novell.  Caldera
| is/was owned by the Canopy Group, which is in turn owned by
| Novell's founder.  This lawsuit has no ties to Novell as a company
| except through Ray Noorda, though undoubtedly it could only
| continue with Noorda's blessing. 

not true. novell sold unixware to sco in 1995. so any ip issues 
involving unixware are gonna be pretty tough to try to reconcile, in 
that it would mean that noorda sold the ip, then proceeded to sell it 
anyway as linux through caldera -- which can scarcely sue itself, and 
it now owns unixware. and it freely gpled the stuff it shipped. i 
have right here before me an unopened box of what will no doubt be 
the last thing called "sco linux," and it's shipped by sco, and it 
contains the linux kernel and it's gpled -- not copyright the sco 
group but instead the standard kernel copyright/license. *they 
shipped it with that license.* which makes it rather more difficult 
for them to cry foul, because no matter how it's sliced, they 
promoted the very thing they are now suing over. with a license that 
prevents the suit.

they have gone frigging nuts.
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dep

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