| Title | Judge Spanks SCO in Ancient Ownership-of-Unix Lawsuit | |
| Date | Saturday December 20 2014, @08:37PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the groklaw-still-alive dept. | ||
El Reg reports
Linux is saved! Again!
[...]Last year, SCO managed to secure approval to re-open the case against IBM.
Groklaw's now posted a ruling(PDF) from last week in which Judge David Nuffer of the US District Court for the District of Utah appears to deliver good news for IBM.
The crucial bit of the ruling looks to be this paragraph:
SCO is bound by, and may not here re-litigate, the rulings in the Novell judgement that Novell (not SCO) owns the copyrights to the pre-1996 UNIX source code, and that Novell waived SCO's contract claims against IBM for alleged breaches of the licensing agreements pursuant to which IBM licensed such source code.
Interestingly, it looks like IBM is hurrying this one along: the ruling says Big Blue moved for partial summary [judgement] in the case. The ruling also appears to knock out SCO's claims that IBM has indulged in unfair competition or other commercial no-nos.
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