The acquisition of Novell, Attachmate and buying some intellectual property by Microsoft as part of this deal has for some excitement in the developer and provided open-source community. And not least because it was unclear the first time, what happens with the Unix copyrights that Novell calls its own. In a statement by John Dragoon, Novell's Chief Marketing Officer, the company has now made it clear that even after the acquisition by Attachmate continues to be the proprietor of the Unix copyrights. The legal battle with SCO can then go further.

Although a court had ruled that Novell, as SCO claims, with sales of goods from Unix to SCO's Unix copyright and the transfer has not. SCO, however, has how ever appealed. For SCO, the question of the Unix copyrights crucial in the infinite history of the processes over alleged acquisition of programming concepts or pieces of code from Unix System V into Linux. Even before the opinion of the Unix copyrights Attachmate CEO Jeff Hawn had developers trying to calm the Open Suse. The company expects "no change in the relationship between the business and the Suse open SUSE project as a result of the acquisition."