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Novell promises not to SCOwn other firms

Robert Hallock August 16, 2007 9:44 PM ET in Tech

Bruce Lowry, spokesperson for Novell, has stated that the company has no intention of suing firms in light of their victory over SCO. In spite of the fact that Novell Networks could legally, and probably successfully, sue a large variety of firms that were licensing from SCO, they’re being cavalier lads and letting things slide.

Good on them.

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1 Comment:

  1. Leonardo
    F@H Reign of Terror is back!
    17 Aug '07, 2:04 am

    Good move on Novell's part! I hope they don't change their mind. Legally entitled or not, the copyright and patent infringement tort actions at corporate level in IT have become crazy, slowing down the whole industry, in my opinion.

    However, that does not mean that Novell is letting SCO off the hook. One of the issues that Novell is continuing to sue SCO over is the payments SCO received from Microsoft and Sun for Unix licenses.
    Lowry claimed that if the those companies paid SCO for Unix copyrights owned by Novell, SCO will have to pay Novell whatever it earned from those licenses.

    Hopefully such payments would be high enough so as to bury for good that miserable, odious, disingenuous SCO.

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