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Re:SUSE targets pre-summer IPO by rdpintqogeogsaa on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:43PM (#26440646)
Don't forget they also hold the copyright to UNIX[1]. They're doing absolutely nothing with it, presumably other than collecting royalties from Xinuos.

[1] https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/11/26/why-bsd-os-is-...

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Re:SUSE targets pre-summer IPO by ghaff on Friday March 12, 2021 @04:28PM (#26441177)
The whole business of Novell retaining the copyrights to UNIX when they transferred other rights to SCO may have been the most weird twist of a generally surreal case.

I wonder if we'll ever really know the whole backstory here. SCO pretty clearly messed up big time but did their lawyers just screw up or did SCO decide this was a detail to be dealt with later?

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Re:SUSE targets pre-summer IPO by cognaitiv on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:43PM (#26443728)
Interesting read. What could you do with the copyright to UNIX?
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