The website Groklaw, which waged a tireless campaign against the SCO Group after it filed a case against IBM in 2003, for "misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition and breach of contract, has decided it is time to put up the shutters.

The SCO Group was yesterday (US time) denied a fresh trial by the district court of Utah to examine its claim to own the IP for UNIX and this looks to be the end of the road for the long-running litigation.

Novell, which put itself on the block some months ago, has sought expressions of interest from suitors by the end of the week, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

A jury in Utah has awarded the ownership of the UNIX copyrights to Novell, ending a long-running battle with SCO.

An appeals court in the long-running case between SCO and Novell has ruled that a decision on who owns the copyrights to UNIX must be decided by a jury and not a judge.

In a shock announcement, Microsoft has today taken majority ownership of software house Novell. This immediately gives the Redmond giant control of Novell's intellectual property assets including the legal copyright over UNIX. Already Red Hat and Canonical (Ubuntu) have expressed their expectation Microsoft will aggressively seek to eradicate all distributions save for Microsoft Linux Vista, formerly SUSE. (APRIL FOOL JOKE!!)

Yes, this is a 2009 headline. Who'd have thought? The SCO Group is back in the news with plans to auction off its core products so the proceeds can continue its lawsuits over alleged copyright violations in Linux. Is CEO Darl McBride mad?

The decision in the long-running court case between Novell and SCO over ownership of UNIX code is over.  Finally.  Novell really did own the SVRX code and SCO owes Novell lots of money.

What's the big deal about Linux? Isn't it at heart just a PC-based version of UNIX – the ‘70’s hit operating system which has outlived the predictions of its demise throughout the ‘90’s? If you’ve come from a Solaris or HP/UX or AIX background isn’t a PC-based UNIX a bit, well, passé?

Continuous availability software specialist Neverfail has made two senior appointments to its sales operation in the Asia Pacific region.