The SCO Group has been appointed a nanny by the bankruptcy courts after petitioning to be allowed to sell its Unix assets to exit Chapter 11 and continue its litigation.

The ailing SCO company has been ordered to cease its vexatious lawsuits and pay Novell over $2.54 million after falsely accusing the company of using its UNIX IP to better Linux.

Four and a half years into the making, Novell wins copyrights lawsuit over the Unix operating system.

Ubuntu's founder has officially put a stop to recent rumours saying that the distro is "next in line" for a deal with Microsoft.

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer once again proves why he shouldn't be in front of the press. At a conference this week, he talked about the MS/Novell deal, and reaffirmed fears of open-source nuts everywhere.

Microsoft is in discussion with Novell to offer "sales support and technology sharing" for Suse Linux.