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A couple of SCO amusements
SCO has, of course, been claiming ownership of the Unix code base; the SCOsource page is quite clear on
that point. So it interesting to note the following in SCO's
annual report as filed with the SEC: "The Company has an
arrangement with Novell, Inc. ("Novell") in which it acts as an
administrative agent in the collection of royalties for customers who
deploy SVRx technology. Under the agency agreement, the Company collects
all customer payments and remits 95 percent of the collected funds to
Novell and retains 5 percent as an administrative fee." SCO never
owned Unix; it just does the paperwork for a 5% cut. (Thanks to Karsten
Self, who posted this to the linux-elitists list).
Meanwhile, if you're confused by the whole SCO suit (and have a familiarity with cheesy American TV), you might like this pictoral summary of the case. (Log in to post comments)
A couple of SCO amusements Posted May 28, 2003 20:48 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (guest, #216) [Link] Well, that's interesting. So I guess Microsoft just paid a bunch of cash to Novell for the "Unix license", hey? Or am I reading that wrongly? Seems a little amusing to me...
A couple of SCO amusements Posted May 28, 2003 22:06 UTC (Wed) by microlhk (guest, #7619) [Link] Just a quickly decided (rushed ?) investment in FUD, duly reflected with a handsome return.Daisy deserves to be amused.
A couple of SCO amusements Posted May 28, 2003 20:51 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (guest, #216) [Link] One other thing... isn't it about time to remove SCO Linux from the "Leading Distributions" list here on LWN? I for one think Slackware deserves better than to be underneath SCO. (Yes, I know they're alphabetical, but still...)
A couple of SCO amusements Posted May 28, 2003 21:32 UTC (Wed) by djarn (guest, #11498) [Link] ...or at least move it to the "Historical (non-active)" section... ;-)
A couple of SCO amusements Posted May 28, 2003 22:44 UTC (Wed) by stuart (subscriber, #623) [Link] Good call.After all, SCO have stopped distributing their Linux offering (officially) now haven't they? Stu.
A couple of SCO amusements Posted May 29, 2003 3:03 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Linux is still on their FTP server. At least the source RPMs.
A couple of SCO amusements Posted May 28, 2003 21:40 UTC (Wed) by torsten (guest, #4137) [Link] ... you might like this pictoral summary of the case. I did. Daisy/Linux looks better than I remember.
More from the SCO 10-K Posted May 29, 2003 1:21 UTC (Thu) by markhb (guest, #1003) [Link] From the "Current Status" section in Part I, Item 1, top of Page 5 by their pagination:We also enjoy a broad and deep set of intellectual property rights relating to the UNIX operating system. We have recently initiated efforts to garner value from our intellectual property assets and believe it will provide us with additional licensing and partnering revenue opportunities.I'm starting to think that they have involved with so many legal teams that nobody has any idea of the "big picture" anymore... they contradict themselves in the space of paragraphs!
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