SCO (Caldera) ordered to pay Novell
Seems to me that it boils down to the Sun UNIX contract where they wanted changes so they could take Solaris opensource. Now, what does that mean as to the validity of that change, for opensolaris’s future?
Especially since Novell is Microsoft’s bitch these days.
I’m not alone in this thinking :
[…] the amount awarded to Novell is so low that I find it unlikely that Novell will accept that amount and ratify the SUN license. It is more likely in my way of thinking that Novell will in the end refuse those funds, void the SUN license and call them up (just to see if they actually do want to legally open source Solaris).
Hey, if you open source technology which is not yours and you have not been so licensed, you are in serious trouble. And unlike SCO, SUN does have a lot of cash to lose if they are wrong. So the last thing that SUN wants, is to be sued by Novell for all damages resulting from open sourcing Solaris.
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