Ruling Reverberates Through Open-Source Community

Novell wins in court, but SCO ready for next fight.

A Salt Lake City jury sided with Novell in its long-running legal dispute against SCO Group’s claim it owned the copyright to the Unix operating system, a cousin to the popular open-source OS Linux.

The decision provides answers to some key arguments within the open source community. Throughout the lengthy trials and litigation, SCO Group demanded licensing fees from nearly 1,500 corporate Linux users on grounds that elements of Linux are based off Unix and violated SCO Group’s copyrights.

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