Final judgment: SCO owes Novell millions (plus interest)

[nes...@wigner.berkeley.edu]

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Federal district judge Dale A. Kimball has handed down the final
judgment in the SCO case. The decision dismisses SCO's latest claims,
grants declaratory relief to Novell, and sustains the court's previous
judgment that SCO owes Novell over $2.54 million (plus interest) for
unjust enrichment.

The company originally claimed that it owned the UNIX SVRX copyrights
and that incontrovertible evidence had been uncovered that the open
source Linux kernel was written using a significant amount of code
that was misappropriated from SVRX. In reality, SCO's own internal
audits of Linux source code turned up no evidence of copyright
infringement; meanwhile, Novell has turned out to be the rightful
owner of the SVRX copyrights.....

Despite all the legal decisions to the contrary, SCO's number one man,
Darl McBride, has continued to espouse his belief that Linux was built
by stealing from UNIX. Regardless of his opinion, SCO's long battle is
finally reaching a very undignified end.
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