The Grumpy Geek

Well, it took a while but the court has sorted through the pile of crap SCO has been shoveling for the past few years. Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare coyrights (see the Groklaw post.) In short, since Novell owns the rights they have the ability to waive the claims against IBM and Sequent which they had already done. The court affirmed that SCO is obligated to recognize the waiver and thus the biggest part of the basis for their claims disappeared with the stroke of a pen.

Even better, since SCO licensed “their” Unix IP to Microsoft and Sun, they now owe a bunch of money to Novell in license revenue. To quote Mr. Burns…”exxxcellent.” There is more to be worked out, but chalk one up against this predatory IP litigation crap.  The end is nigh for McBride and his motley crew.