Blog 6

Research and explain to me in laymans terms what the SCO v. Novell Trial is about.

SCO v. Novell is a lawsuit from SCO Group against Novell.

SCO Group stated that SCO property was in Linux by mistake and want Linux users to pay license fees to SCO.

SCO said in a round about way, that they owned the copyrights to the original “code and derivatives” from AT&T.

Novell said, no, we own Unix. Novell registers the copyrights and SCO sues for slander of title.

Now, Novell states that SCO owes them money for Unix. The courts agreed that SCO was should pay.

The court gave Novell 2.5M and SCO can't get involved with Sun. This went to appeals, but the appeals court agreed with the the lower court and Novell got what they wanted, including the 2.5M.