SCO counter-sues self over UNIX IP
Posted by Matthew on Wednesday May 28, 2003 @04:18PM
from the tail-chases-dog dept.
Matthew writes: SCO Group has counter-sued itself claiming that its recently filed OpenLinux intellectual property rights violation suit has no merit in light of recent revelations by Novell that SCO did not license the UNIX patents or copyrights, and does not in fact have any intellectual property rights in UNIX.
John Speigal, a lawyer for the prosecution, states: “On the surface, it appears as if our original OpenLinux suit may have been hasty. Our lawyers are of course looking into the claims in the counter-suit. It does appear that our rights in unix apply only to sublicensing and copyrights in code that we have developed since licensing the system V codebase in 1995.”
John Speigal, a lawyer for the defense, states: “SCO’s original suit against itself is an egregious and indefensible tactic to scare OpenLinux users into shifting to UNIX. We applaud Novell for its continuing supporting support of the Open Source community.”