Unix was left without a master: the U.S. Court overturned the copyright on the operating system, which belonged to Novell

U.S. Court of Appeals acquitted in August 2007 ruling of another court on assignment of copyright to the Unix operating system of Novell, reports Associated Press. Under the new decision, the copyright on Unix will be determined through further investigation that the SCO provides a chance to win a multi-year struggle for pravoobladanie system.

The origins of the conflict between Novell and SCO leave in 1993, when the company Novell for $ 300 million acquired Unix System Laboratories, which owns the relevant licenses to use the operating system. Two years later, Novell decided to sell the division of SCO Group. Transaction took place, but that it was sold, the companies were each to his own opinion. According to the representatives of Novell, your rights to use Unix were behind it, while the SCO argued that these rights are passed to them together with other assets.

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Unix was left without a master: the U.S. Court overturned the copyright on the operating system, which belonged to Novell
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