Novell says SCO doesn't own Unix

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

> "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.

So, this tells me that the best way to deal with SCO is not to deal with
them.  Hmm.  Matches my business plan already.


In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
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