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A legal question
I have a question. Maybe it is a catch 22 and maybe it is not. The article states -

"In January, SCO sued Novell, charging that Novell falsely claimed control of the Unix operating system, on which Linux is based. The suit, filed in Utah's Third District Court in Salt Lake City, accuses Novell of slander and seeks an order to require the company to sign over all Unix-related copyrights to SCO and withdraw any statements claiming ownership of Unix."

Ok, now to my question. How can SCO claim that Novell has no claim to UNIX and it is using slander against SCO; and in the same breath ask as a resolution to sign over all rights to all UNIX-related coptrights? Supposedly they don't have anything to sign over if SCO is correct. So why this as a clause to their lawsuit. I suppose you can distinguish between UNIX and UNIX-related. But accoeding to SCO they purchased UNIX from Novell. Not every scrap of code that is realted to UNIX. To a layman like myself, this only makes SCO look even more like a crook than before. They claim some SCO UNIX code is in Linux, but ask companys to pay them for the entire code; regardless of whether they had any contibution to it or not. I'm not a lawyer by a long shot, so this all seems to contradict SCO claims.
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GPL  NemesisNL | 02/10/04
Please give us a preview mode again  NemesisNL | 02/10/04
I am pretty sure the US has laws to protect the ignorant.  nucrash | 02/10/04
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse"  tic swayback | 02/10/04
Ignorance and copyright  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/10/04
Copyright time limits  Update victim | 02/10/04
Re: Copyright time limits  STDog | 02/11/04
depends on the case;  ryusen | 02/10/04
There is a difference here  MG_z | 02/11/04
Novell turns the screws on SCO  Solid Water | 02/11/04
The courts in this country can not be trusted.  xode@... | 02/11/04
Slow news day  IT_User | 02/10/04
Actually, there IS news (later in the day)  IT_User | 02/10/04
Sco......giggle, snort, LOL  crocd | 02/10/04
Unfazed because we know they'll lose (nt)  CobraA1 | 02/10/04
Yep, unfazed  FilledOut | 02/10/04
Again, groklaw.net has the real scoop  Xunil_Sierutuf | 02/10/04
groklaw...  Arm A. Geddon | 02/10/04
Yep , that item about M$ corrupting govt. administration is bad news.  dicktaurus@... | 02/11/04
Fazed by what?!? SCO has show absolutely ZERO EVIDENCE!!!  xunil skcor | 02/10/04
At the beginning there was concern  doctormoriarty | 02/11/04
SCO is Another Dirty Attempt by Microsoft to Stop Linux  brenthawkinsmd | 02/10/04
Evidence  Martin Marvinski | 02/10/04
Thanks SCO  michael-t | 02/10/04
Countersuit Against SCO  nograin | 02/10/04
Re:Countersuit Against SCO  Mack DaNife | 02/11/04
Evil is evil  pa2004 | 02/10/04
Yeas, evil is evil  IT_User | 02/10/04
Huh?  doe_z | 02/10/04
Re: pa2004  Martin Marvinski | 02/10/04
Great Idea!!!  Spoon Jabber | 02/10/04
Yes, it is a great idea  IT_User | 02/10/04
problems  ryusen | 02/10/04
Just mark it with .....  Mack DaNife | 02/11/04
Just do not feed trolls...EVER  Mack DaNife | 02/11/04
Re: pa2004  MG_z | 02/11/04
A legal question  MG_z | 02/11/04
Read the latest GROKLAW  IT_User | 02/11/04
RE: Read the latest GROKLAW  MG_z | 02/11/04

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