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The SCO Group was dealt a serious, potentially fatal blow today in its courtroom battle against Linux. The jury in the trial between SCO and Novell has issued a verdict affirming that Novell is the rightful owner of the UNIX SVRX copyrights. This verdict will make it difficult for SCO to continue pursuing its baseless assault on the open source operating system.....


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Yay! :D

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It would be interesting to know who keeps funding them?

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It would be interesting to know who keeps funding them?


From what I can make out, they threaten to sue a company for IP infringement, but the company can buy a lease to avoid being sued...A number of companies have done this, including Sun and Microsoft in the early days of SCO...
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I know that Microsoft had some involvement but that was years ago, and they were declared bankrupt at least once. I thought that they had one of those ambulance chasing lawyers on a no win no fee basis. Though the more lawsuits they lose the fewer lawyers willing to take the risk of supporting them.

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