[Linux-aus] Fwd: [Talk] Novell the Red Knight...

[Leon Brooks]

FYI

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Subject: [Talk] Novell the Red Knight...
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 22:36
From: David J N Begley <d.begley at uws.edu.au>
To: talk at auug.org.au

In case there's anyone left who hasn't already seen this, Novell has
 come out swinging (hard) against SCO and its claims against IBM and
 Linux.

In short, Novell accuse SCO of falsely claiming ownership of UNIX
 intellectual property (pointing to public records and business
 correspondence indicating Novell still owns same) in order to "sow
 fear, uncertainty, and doubt ... in order to extort payments from
 Linux distributors and users".  Novell goes on to reiterate strong
 support for Linux and open source.

This, of course, raises some rather embarrassing questions about
 Microsoft "supporting intellectual property ownership" by giving money
 to SCO recently.

The Novell press release:

http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html

The inevitable Slashdot follow-up:

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

Anyone writing any press release for AUUG should probably take this
 major development into account.

Interesting times indeed...
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