Story: SCO's outlook is a bleak house
Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 25 January 2005, 3:40 AM)
Your article states that "while there's no proof that IBM contravened any copyright law there is a chance that it didn't follow the contract between it and SCO that it had when it licensed Unix."
The problem with this assertion is that there is not and never was a contract between IBM and the SCO Group, nor was there between IBM and SCO's predecessor in interest the Santa Clara Operation. IBM's contract was with ATT. SCO has never shown that it acquired the IP in question when it bought certain UNIX rights from the Santa Clara Operation, nor has it even shown that the Santa Clara Operation ever owned the IP in question. That, by the way, is the subject of a current lawsuit between SCO and Novell. Although the latter suit has not been settled, the judge has said that SCO's ownership of anything relating to IBM's UNIX operations is questionable.
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