Novell filed a flurry of summary judgment motions earlier this week in its ongoing legal battle with SCO. Summary judgment motions, which are filed after the discovery phase but before a case goes to ...

The case traces its root to 1993 when Novell paid over $300 million to purchase UNIX System Laboratories, which owned the UNIX copyrights and licenses. Two years later, Novell decided to sell the UNIX ...

A 1995 contract obtained by CNET News.com shows SCO Group receiving broad rights to the Unix operating system but Novell retaining copyrights and patents. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

SCO’s fate has been placed in the hands of 12 Utah jurors who will resume deliberations on Tuesday. They are tasked with deciding whether the UNIX SVRX copyrights were transferred from Novell to SCO ...

Late on Friday afternoon Judge Dale Kimball of the U.S. District Court in Utah issued what looks to be a book-closing ruling in the long effort of one company, the SCO Group, to take over the ...

Is Linux--the most successful operating system built with free software--infected with code that's actually owned by someone? SCO Group, also known as Caldera Systems, certainly thinks so. It sent ...

While Novell’s ownership of Unix was confirmed by a jury earlier this week, Novell’s future as an independent company, at least in its current form, is far from secure. With the recent jury ruling, a ...

Breaking out of the traditional owner/group/world way of managing file permissions, setfacl and getfacl provide a lot of flexibility and fair share of complexity. The standard way of assigning file ...

Novell claims that it--not SCO--retains the underlying copyrights and patents to Unix technology that SCO has claimed. Citing that intellectual property, SCO, lead by CEO Darl McBride, has threatened ...

The SCO Group's lawsuits against two Linux users this week sent ripples through the Linux universe, but not much in the way of fear. Legal experts expect many Linux customers to grow more nervous as a ...