Novell Proclaims 'We're Not SCO' and We Won't Sue

E5Rebel writes "Novell has promised not to sue anybody over the Unix copyrights that a US court last week ruled it owned. They said there was no Unix in Linux and now they are sticking by it. Perhaps they had no option, but Novell deserve praise for taking on the fight with SCO...."

On the UNIX copyrights

[Haiku 4 U]

If Novell is soooooo
cool, why don't they open source
UNIX already?

Re:heh.

[Oddscurity]

Reminds me of that Bill Gates joke:

Bill Gates arrives at Heaven's gates and St. Peter tells him that he really doesn't know what to do with Bill. "I mean on one hand you've helped get computers into many homes, but on the other hand you released Windows. I'll give you the choice, heaven or hell?"

Bill thinks about this and asks to be shown both places to make an informed decision on the matter. And so Peter takes him to heaven, replete with clouds, angels, harps and what not. Bill barely manages to stifle a yawn before St. Peter takes him to hell, a fabulous beach with babes playing around. "I've decided I want you to send me to hell," Bill announces.

So a few weeks later St. Peter looks up Bill to see how he's doing. Gates is strung up against a cave passage somewhere, demons all around him whipping and branding him. "And Bill, enjoying yourself?"

Bill grimaces and says: "This isn't what you promised me!"

"Ah," says St. Peter, "you're right. That was the demo."

Re:heh.

[iocat]

The real victim in the case, at least now that it's resolved, is GrokLaw. What the hell are they going to do now, without this case to report on!?

Re:heh.

[xtracto]

"Ah," says St. Peter, "you're right. That was the screensaver."

There, fixed it for you.

Re:Taco, SCO SUED them. They HAD TO. Seriously!

[doxology]

Sweden launches nubile virgins straight into the heart of the Sun.

That's it, I'm switching to Solaris.

Re:Pact... or fiction?

[penp]

1) Yeah, and someone will reverse engineer windows and call it something like Winws (Winws Is Not Windows, Stupid), and release it under the GPLv3, and new software will be written for it in GPLv3, and it will run in real Windows too, and then Microsoft will pay. 2) What? 3) If Microsoft has enough money to survive the melting Xbox360 debacle, I hardly think it will be anytime soon that Microsoft is shoved into obscurity. I mean, hell, they survived Windows ME, and I'm sure they'll survive Vista. Personally, I think there's just as much FUD out there about MS as there is about Linux. Oh, right. I'm on slashdot. Die, microsoft!

Re:heh.

[Skapare]

The real victim in the case, at least now that it's resolved, is GrokLaw. What the hell are they going to do now, without this case to report on!?

They can report on all the cases involving the RIAA.

No Unix in Linux

[Nom du Keyboard]

Of course there's no Unix in Linux. Everyone knows there's Microsoft Windows in Linux instead. It must be true, Microsoft said so.

Re:heh.

[kpainter]

A real Microsoft joke punchline should go:

"Ah," says St. Peter, "you're right. That was..." 0x0000001E, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

Re:Pact... or fiction?

[Virgil Tibbs]

on a slightly more serious note...
I take it you have not heard of reactos
maybe you should take a look

Re:I believe them...

[blackicye]

You can tell a business is in trouble if they start attacking their own customers. Even the most retarded businessman doesn't want his own customers to hate him.

A simple fact that the movie and music industry doesn't seem to be able to grasp.