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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.
About Maureen O'GaraMaureen O'Gara is the Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.