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And the battle continues. On Friday, August 10th a federal district court judge in Utah ruled that Novell owns the rights to the Unix operating system and not SCO. Finally, we may see an end to this ridiculous rampage that SCO tried to go on suing (or threatening to sue) anyone who has an operating system that is even remotely related to Unix. The judge also said that Novell could possibly force SCO to drop their suit against IBM.

This judgment also helps to show that Open Source software (such as Linux) is not as vulnerable to copyright problems like many people believed. SCO has had virtually no success in pursuing their Unix copyright infringement lawsuits and never even had a chance in court against Linux.

Hopefully this will bring a halt to SCO attempting to shutdown anything that even appears to be similar to Unix. Just because an operating system works or looks similar to another doesn’t mean that there are copyright infringements and that the company making it should be shutdown. Seems that SCO and others like them have forgotten — Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Technorati Tags: Unix, Linux, Open Source, SCO, Novell, IBM

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