SCO Confirms Copyright Ownership of UNIX® and UnixWare®
Amendment to Asset Purchase Agreement Confirms Copyright Ownership LINDON, Utah -- The SCO® Group (SCO) (Nasdaq: SCOX), the owner of the UNIX® operating system, today confirmed its previously stated ownership of UNIX copyrights. As SCO has consistently maintained, all rights to the UNIX and UnixWare technology, including the copyrights, were transferred to SCO as part of the Asset Purchase Agreement between Novell and SCO dated September 19, 1995. Any question of whether the UNIX copyrights were transferred to SCO under the Asset Purchase Agreement was clarified in Amendment No. 2 to the Asset Purchase Agreement dated October 16, 1996. "This amendment simply confirms SCO's long stated position that it owns all copyrights associated with the UNIX and UnixWare businesses," said Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager, SCOsource intellectual property division, SCO. The amendment was signed by Steven Sabbath, Vice President, Law and Corporate Aff...