In the SCO v. Novell case it was a legal battle over ownership of the source code for the UNIX operating system, including part of Linux. It all started when In the early 1990's, AT&T sold the UNIX code to Novell and Novell partially sold some of the rights of UNIX code to Santa Cruz Operations then A few years later, Santa Cruz Operations sold the UNIX code to the SCO. A couple of years later SCO decided to seek legal action against Linux manufacturers and distributors for what they believe were a copyright violation. The case went on for a few years, but it all finally ended on March 2010 when the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Novell. It was a victory for Open source project!
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