A Brief Review of the SCO v. Novell Trial.

This was a multiple part court trial in a lawsuit originally brought on by the SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) Group computer software company against the Novell computer software company. This was a process that started around 2003 and continued on until the end of March, 2010. SCO claimed ownership of the UNIX computer operating system (OS) from which the well known LINUX OS can trace its roots. Novell claimed these allegations were false and that Novell still owned the copyright to UNIX. In the end, the SCO group lost its lawsuit and was ordered to pay an approximate $2.5 million reward to Novell. Due to SCO losing its original allegations, it was also ruled by the court that SCO was not authorized to enter into an earlier 2003 agreement it had made with the Sun Systems computer software company regarding the UNIX OS.