SCO vs. Linux: Former chief US district judge appointed as trustee, Aug 26, 2009

Edward Cahn, a former chief US district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, has been selected to take the reins at SCO following the bankruptcy court's decision to entrust the continuation of SCO Group's business to a bankruptcy trustee.

A US federal appeals court overturned a judge’s ruling that granted Novell the copyright of the Unix computer OS yesterday.

Bankrupt Unix vendor SCO now has a new leg to stand on. A U.S Federal Appeals court judge has overturned part of a 2007 ruling which gave ownership of the Unix copyrights to Novell.

Oh the irony. Today, August 24th, a Federal Appeals Court ruled that while the walking dead SCO still owes Novell big bucks for selling Unix to Sun and Microsoft, the District Court overstepped its grounds in ruling that SCO had never bought Unix's IP (intellectual property) rights in the first place.

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