hahaha! this is crazy!

Pt cei care s-au saturat sa citeasca despre subiect si pt ca undeva prin
regulile listei parca scria ca un URL trebuie insotit de niste citate
scurte macar:

Novell has put out a press release this morning unequivocally claiming
that they, and not SCO, own the patents and copyrights to UNIX System V.
If true, this would torpedo SCO's claims over the last few months about
intellectual property infringement in the Linux kernel, GNU/Linux
distributions, etc. News.com has a story from last night, prior to this
press release.

"This morning, Novell announced some of the terms of the company's 1995
agreement to sell its Unix business to SCO. The shocking news is that
Novell did not sell the Unix intellectual property to SCO. Instead, they
sold SCO a license to develop, sell, and sub-license Unix. The title to
Unix copyrights and patents remains with Novell. To back up this
assertion, Novell refers to public records at the Library of Congress
Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent Office.

"In their announcement, Novell refers to recent letters from SCO asking
Novell to assign the Unix copyrights to SCO. So, apparently SCO's
management team knew that they did not own Unix while pursuing their sham
campaign against Linux.

"Along with this revelation, Novell is reiterating its support of the
Linux and Open Source developer community, and its status as a partner in
that community. Novell rejects SCO's accusations of plagiarism. Novell
management says they do not intend to stand in the way of the development
of the Linux kernel, its companion GNU system, and other Free Software.

Ce sa zic, traim momente istorice :)

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Nicolae Mihalache wrote:

> http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/28/1252229.shtml?tid=123&tid=130&tid=185&tid=190&tid=99
>

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