[b]Bruce Lowry, Novell Spokesman, Aug 2007[/b] "We're not interested in suing people over Unix," Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry said. "We're not even in the Unix business anymore."
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135959-c,unix/article.html On 8/16/07, Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [b]Darl McBride, SCO CEO, April 2005[/b]: > > "We have seen what Sun plans to do with OpenSolaris and we have no problem > with it. What they're doing protects our Unix intellectual property rights." > > [b]Jack Messman, Novell CEO, in November 2004 on Sun's plans to open source > Solaris[/b]: > > "We are going to be interested in seeing how they do that because we own > Unix. We own the copyrights and the patents." > > [b]Scott McNealy, Sun CEO, in November 2004[/b]: > > "There were hundreds of encumbrances to open sourcing Solaris. Some of them > we had to buy out, others we had to eliminate. We had to pay SCO more money > so we could open the code -- I couldn't say anything about that at the time, > but now I can tell you that we paid them that license fee to expand our > rights to the code." > > [b]Judge Dale Kimball, August 2007[/b]: > > "The 2003 Sun Agreement purports..."to amend and restate" a Software License > and Distribution Agreement, signed March 17, 1994, between Sun and Novell. > Id. Recitals. In the 1994 Sun Agreement, Sun obtained a license that included > certain UNIX System V technology. The 2003 Sun Agreement re-licenses the SVRX > technology licensed in the 1994 Sun Agreement and licenses additional SVRX > technology to Sun. Id. Ex. 10....SCO did not contact Novell for approval > before executing the 2003 Sun Agreement or the 2003 Microsoft Agreement. And > Novell did not authorize either agreement." > > "...the court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare > copyrights." > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
