Novel Owns Unix Copyrights
Federal District Court judge Dale Kimball has ruled that Novell owns the copyrights in the Unix operating system. Since 2003 the SCO Group has tried to assert its ownership of Unix in lawsuits against developers of the open-source Linux operating system, such as I.B.M. This ruling seriously weakens that case.
Columbia professor Eben Moglen is quoted, saying, “It was argued that this was supposed to suggest riskiness in open source, but it turns out that the open-source world was rock solid from the beginning.”