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Ruling against SCO provides 'small relief' for Linux users

Publication:ComputerWorldDate:Aug 17 2007
Reporter:Todd R. Weiss

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A federal judge's ruling last Friday that Novell Inc., not The SCO Group Inc., legally owns the copyrights for Unix thrust the intellectual property battles begun by SCO in early 2003 back into the IT spotlight.

But several IT managers and industry analysts said this week that while the decision certainly was a significant development, they long ago stopped viewing SCO's legal campaign against Linux backers as a real threat to users of the open-source operating system.




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