Novell says SCO doesn't own Unix

[dep]

does this release, from sco, look to anyone else like one huge 
backoff?

"SCO owns the contract rights to the UNIX? operating system. SCO has 
the contractual right to prevent improper donations of UNIX code, 
methods or concepts into Linux by any UNIX vendor. 

"Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts 
are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a 
legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything 
you could do with copyrights.

"SCO's lawsuit against IBM does not involve patents or copyrights. 
SCO's complaint specifically alleges breach of contract, and SCO 
intends to protect and enforce all of the contracts that the company 
has with more than 6,000 licensees.

"We formed SCOsource in January 2003 to enforce our UNIX rights and we 
intend to aggressively continue in this successful path of 
operation."

that's the statement in its entirety.

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dep

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