The final judgement in the SCO vs Novell case is out - the wise amongst you will start selling your shares now!  The bottom line is that SCO owes Novell millions plus quite a lot of interest.

The decision, handed down by Federal district judge Kimball, dismisses SCO’s latest claims, grants declaratory relief to Novell, and sustains the court’s previous judgment that SCO owes Novell over $2.54 million (plus interest) for unjust enrichment. Another analogy could be one of strapping a firework to your ar*e but in this case SCO got the Russian Soyuz shoved right where the sun…you know the rest.

Until this decision the SCO/Novell spat had been running for about five years now with SCO originally claiming that it owned the UNIX SVRX copyrights and that incontrovertible evidence had been uncovered that the open source Linux kernel was written using a significant amount of code that was misappropriated from SVRX. Sadly for SCO, the audits of Linux source code uncovered nothing that could be conceived as copyright infringement. Novell has been delcared as the rightful owner of the SVRX copyrights.

SCO usage the threat of legal action to force cash from companies that used Linux until Novell took SCO’s claims to court in a case which Novell won forcing SCO into bankruptcy.

SCO has been ordered to pay Novell $2,547,817 plus another $918,122 in prejudgment interest and $489 per day from August 29 until November 20. Now, with SCO is in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings it’s not likely that they’ll be able to find the money to pay anytime soon - what an excellent oppurtunity for Novell to acquire SCO.

Stepping into the land of the delusional; SCO’s head honcho, Darl McBride, would appear to still be adamant that Linux was built on stolen UNIX code! “There, there Darl…just rest your head on the pillow and when you wake there’ll be a few mill under the pillow courtesy of the UNIX fairies”!

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