Jury Sides With Novell in Long-running SCO Battle (PC World)

On Tuesday, a commission in Nevada sided with Novell in its long-running jural disagreement with SCO.

"This selection is beatific programme for Novell, for Linux, and for the unstoppered maker community," Novell wrote on its Web site.

The commission in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada ruled that Novell owns Unix copyrights that SCO has proven to insist as its own.

Pamela Jones, a paraprofessional who has intimately followed the SCO v. Novell housing since its first on her Groklaw blog, initially deemed this the modify of the line. "It's over," she wrote on her site.

However, SCO could attractiveness the ruling. Also, as designer noted after on her blog, a SCO spokesman told The Salt Lake Tribune that the consort would move its attendant causa against IBM. SCO haw modify the papers misconduct charges regarding Unix in the IBM case, but SCO has another claims attendant to contracts that it crapper insist against IBM, the spokesman is quoted as saying.

SCO's important ring distinction went nonreciprocal on weekday salutation and the consort had not posted a evidence on its Web site.

SCO has forfeited some rulings in the disagreement over the time pair of years. UNIX users intimately check the housing because they vexation that if SCO prevails, they could grappling jural state too.

The effort dates backwards to 2003 when SCO sued IBM, claiming that it had desecrated SCO's rights by tributary Unix cipher to Linux. The mass year, SCO sued Novell, locution that it falsely claimed rights to Unix.