I just found a Novell press release dated November 26, 1996, which makes it *after* the October 16th, 1996
Amendment 2 was signed. Guess what it says Novell sold off to Santa Cruz? "The UnixWare product lines". I'm pretty excited about digging this up.
SCO is arguing in
its Reply Brief in its appeal that Amendment 2 changed the excluded assets language of the APA so that it gave SCO the copyrights and everything:
The exclusion of all copyrights was subsequently amended in Amendment No. 2 sothat copyrights "required for SCO to exercise its rights with respect to theacquisition of UNIX and UnixWare technologies" were not excluded from the sale,and thus remained within the encompassing reach of all "right, title and interest,"including all "ownership" rights in UNIX and UnixWare that was sold to SCO.This appeal focuses on whether these contractual agreements, and the evidencesurrounding them, properly allow a finding that none of the UNIX and UnixWarecopyrights were required by SCO to exercise its rights in the UNIX and UnixWaretechnologies it acquired.
But here in this press release, we see what Novell told the world it sold, and
once again, it was just the UnixWare business, the UnixWare product lines. No mention of UNIX at all, by the way. Let me show you the
press release, because I think this knocks SCO's arguments out.
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