Speaking of soap operas, there's one soap opera in the technology world that has been going on for so long that nobody really seems to know why it was ever started, whatever all the different moves have been over the years, or whoever lost or won which battle. Just like a true soap opera, you can just jump right in the middle of it and feel like you've always been part of the regular audience. The SCO saga is such a case.
Ars is reporting right from the countertrial that Novell started after having more or less won the trial last year SCO sued Novell with. During that trial it was determined that Novell owned the copyrights to AT&T UNIX' source code and derivatives, including SVRX (System V, Release X). Novell has already stated it has no interest in suing Linux users or distributors with these UNIX copyrights (they depend on Linux now, you see).
SCO senior vice president Chris Sontag was first to take the stand, and when asked "Is there any UnixWare code in Linux?", Ars reports him as answering:
"There very well could be, [...] I've never done that analysis, never seen that analysis." Sontag also testified that there was no difference between the Microsoft and Sun licenses for UnixWare, saying, "They were equal."
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