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Novell's future claims
Gosh. Novell could sue others for using Linux. Worked for SCO, right?

During the discovery phase of the IBM trial, we learned that so much of the source code for UNIX had already been disclosed through textbooks, that SCO dropped their trade secrets claims.

We also learned that much of the code was unprotectable through the settlement of the ATT v. BSD case.

And...ta da!...when discovery was done, they had found 231 lines of code from UNIX in Linux. Aren't there millions of lines of code in Linux?

If copyright infringement were a problem, it would have been found and prosecuted long ago.

On the other hand, companies that paid for licenses to make their own UNIX might have some homework to do.
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huh ????  delbert.hudson@... | 05/06/08
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language ....  delbert.hudson@... | 05/06/08
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