{"id":141,"date":"2007-08-11T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T16:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/08\/11\/smackdown-finally-novell-owns-unix\/"},"modified":"2007-08-11T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T16:32:59","slug":"smackdown-finally-novell-owns-unix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/08\/11\/smackdown-finally-novell-owns-unix\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdown, finally: Novell owns Unix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In throwing out SCO&#8217;s claim that it owns the copyrights to Unix, the judge essentially eviscerated the whole ridiculous case, including the charges against IBM and others.\u00a0 It makes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groklaw.net\/pdf\/Novell-377.pdf\" title=\"Judge Dale Kimball on SCO's claims\">sweet reading<\/a>, and Joe LaSala got a nice quote in the John Markoff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/11\/technology\/11novell.html\" title=\"NY Times on SCO lawsuit\">article <\/a>in the Times today:\u00a0 \u201cThe court\u2019s ruling has cut out the core of SCO\u2019s case and, as a result, eliminates SCO\u2019s threat to the Linux community based upon allegations of copyright infringement of Unix,\u201d said Joe LaSala, Novell\u2019s senior vice president and general counsel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In throwing out SCO&#8217;s claim that it owns the copyrights to Unix, the judge essentially eviscerated the whole ridiculous case, including the charges against IBM and others.\u00a0 It makes for sweet reading, and Joe LaSala got a nice quote in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/08\/11\/smackdown-finally-novell-owns-unix\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1425,1029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novell","category-open-source"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-2h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}