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  1. Comment - Judge: Novell, Not SCO, Owns UNIX Copyrights

    (Aug 11, 2007 - 8:49 AM)

    I did check the facts.

    From WikiPedia: "Caldera Systems, based in Utah, was founded in 1994 by Bryan Sparks[2] and Ransom Love [3]" And Utah is a link that goes to the USA's Utah.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sco_group

    From the same page, about DR-DOS: "Caldera inherited a lawsuit against Microsoft when it purchased DRDOS from Novell in 1996."

    And DR-DOS itself was originally developed by Gary Kildall's Digital Research and sold to Novell in 1991.

  2. Comment - Judge: Novell, Not SCO, Owns UNIX Copyrights

    (Aug 10, 2007 - 11:06 PM)

    "when Santa Cruz was acquired by Caldera, the Canadian company that at the time produced DR DOS"

    From where that come from?
    Caldera isn't Canadian and
    It didn't make DR-DOS, it has buy it.

    EDIT:
    Ok, the article was updated and corrected about the Canadian root and DR-DOS creator. But now there is an error in "that itself had mounted a monumental challenge to Microsoft (that eventually went nowhere)". In fact, Caldera received an undisclosed amount from Microsoft for that "challenge".

  3. Comment - Microsoft Launches Policy Offensive Against Google

    (Mar 6, 2007 - 8:18 PM)

    They forgot about MS-DOS + DoubleSpace/DriveSpace...

    Or that Messager show us an ad...

  4. Comment - Novell: Deal with Microsoft Not an Admission of IP Infringement

    (Feb 26, 2007 - 7:10 PM)

    Of course, but it can be seen as an indication of who seek protection...

    Anyway, the most important is that the spin Microsoft try to make can also be a counter-spin.

  5. Comment - Novell: Deal with Microsoft Not an Admission of IP Infringement

    (Feb 25, 2007 - 1:47 PM)

    If the deal existence is used by Microsoft to assert that Linux infringes some of its patents, then the other way must also be true: It's a proof that Microsoft infringes on patents owned by others.

    Is it not Microsoft that approched Novell to make that deal?