Today's big news is a ruling against SCO in its ongoing lawsuit to obtain royalties for Linux, the open source operating system. According to the judge, the rights claimed by SCO are actually owned by Novell, and were only licensed to SCO. Groklaw triumphs, Court Rules: Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive! Well, maybe. But is better for Linux to be owned by Novell? Well, mostly - Novell has pretty clearly licensed the software as open source. Commentary from Copyfight, TechDirt,
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