A court has upheld judgements in the
SCO/Novell Unix case, which said Novell owned Unix, not
SCO.
SCO, which also claims it owns Linux, is now in Chapter 11
bankruptcy. SCO has already filed an appeal to this "final
judgement".
The Utah court in the Unix case said judgements and damages
awards to Novell last year were sound, and that SCO had to pay
Novell almost £1.7m as well as interest of about £600,000.
Unless SCO can complete a refinancing deal by the end of the
year and get itself out of bankruptcy, Novell will not be expecting
to get its money.
It was SCO's widespread costly legal action over ownership of
Linux, along with Unix, that sent it into the red in the first
place, although its server software sales were already on a
downward spiral.
