A couple of SCO amusements [LWN.net]

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.

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A couple of SCO amusements

Posted May 28, 2003 20:48 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #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 (subscriber, #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.