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SCO & Novell in Court

Trying to Figure Out How Much SCO is Supposed to Owe Novell In Royalties for its Attempt to Tax Linux

May. 4, 2008 08:15 AM

SCO and Novell have been in court this week trying to figure out how much SCO is supposed to owe Novell in royalties for its attempt to tax Linux.

This is the money that SCO claims it doesn’t owe Novell at all because Novell signed away its source code rights and can only claim royalties on binaries.

The trial, in front of SCO’s least favorite judge, started with Novell taking about $7 million off of its claim because it knew it didn’t have a pray on that account and so they’re now down to talking about less than $20 million.

Novell, yes, Novell, called SCO CEO Darl McBride as a witness and he managed to work at least one letter Novell wrote saying SCO owned everything – including the copyrights the court said it didn’t own – into the conversation. The other letters are on SCO web site.

Published May. 4, 2008 — Reads 1,260
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Wayne wrote: Hum a few problems with this. Let's see: 'SCO and Novell have been in court this week trying to figure out how much SCO is supposed to owe Novell in royalties for its attempt to tax Linux.' You forgot to mention that this is due to SCO suing Novell. The Judge determined that Novell was in the right. 'This is the money that SCO claims it doesnt owe Novell at all because Novell signed away its source code rights and can only claim royalties on binaries.' And that the judge has already ruled that to do owe. 'The trial, in front of SCOs least favorite judge, started with Novell taking about $7 million off of its claim because it knew it didnt have a pray on that account and so theyre now down to talking about less than $20 million.' Didn't have a pray? Don't you mean "Didn't have a prayer?" I'd like to sug...

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