"SCO takes this action today given Novell's recent and repeated announcements regarding their claimed ownership of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights," Mark Heise, partner with Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP, said in a statement. "SCO has received many questions about Novell's actions from potential customers, investors and the press. Although SCO owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights, Novell's efforts to claim ownership of these copyrights has forced this action."
Linux proponents have howled that SCO is fighting a desperate battle over technology it does not own. SCO executives maintain that the code is rightfully SCO's intellectual property and was misappropriated for use in Linux.
Among Linux gurus and Novell solution providers, reaction to the news was swift -- and in some cases, glib.
"I'm surprised [SCO doesn't] sue the U.S. government," quipped Chris Maresca, senior partner and co-founder of the Olliance Group, an independent open source strategy company in Palo Alto, Calif. "Isn't it part of their strategy to sue every major organization they can possibly get their hands on?"
At Novell partner Network Technology Group in San Jose, Calif., General Manager Dennis Murphy echoed these sentiments with a touch more gravity.
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