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Novell wins one, loses one (for now) |
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A Utah jury has confirmed Novell's ownership of Unix copyrights, while a judge in Baltimore dismissed the company's lawsuit against Microsoft for damaging WordPerfect's prospects.  The jury in the District Court of Utah trial between SCO Group and Novell issued a verdict determining the ownership of important Unix copyrights. The jury's decision confirmed Novell's ownership of the Unix copyrights, which SCO had asserted to own in its attack on Linux. In a statement, Novell said that it remains committed to promoting Linux, including by defending Linux on the intellectual property front. Ron Hovsepian, Novell president and CEO, said the decision was “good news” for Novell, Linux, and the open source community. However, in another suit, where Novell was battling software giant Microsoft for causing irrecoverable damage to its WordPerfect word processing software through its monopolistic or non-competitive tactics, the judge ruled against Novell. WordPerfect was part of Novell's portfolio for some time in the 1990s, a period when it saw market share plummet from a little under a third of the market in 1990 to around 10 percent by 1996, reports said. Novell intends to appeal the decision and in a blogpost said that it “remains confident in the fundamental validity of its claims and is pleased the court’s ruling also independently recognizes the same.” |
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