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A Response to: Comments on SCO silliness by Nick

In the release Messman said, "SCO continues to say that it owns the UNIX System V patents, yet it must know that it does not. A simple review of U.S. Patent Office records reveals that Novell owns those patents." Further, "the 1995 agreement governing SCO's purchase of UNIX from Novell does not convey to SCO the associated copyrights."

...and from Novell

"To Novell's knowledge, the 1995 agreement governing SCO's purchase of UNIX from Novell does not convey to SCO the associated copyrights," Messman said in the letter. "We believe it unlikely that SCO can demonstrate that it has any ownership interest whatsoever in those copyrights. Apparently you share this view, since over the last few months you have repeatedly asked Novell to transfer the copyrights to SCO, requests that Novell has rejected."

This is also interesting: Flash Back: The Novell-Linux-Unix Connection

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