Novell filed an objection to the SCO Group’s submitted Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan, which would involve a public auction of SCO’s assets. The objection was filed yesterday, which was the deadline for companies to submit objections to SCO’s disclosure statement. Novell did not provide further information on the objection because the attorney working the case was unavailable for comment. A Novell spokesman confirmed that the objection is rooted in the adequacy of SCO’s disclosure statement. Novell was one of three major software companies, the others being IBM and Red Hat, to win a court decision against SCO around the copyright to UNIX.
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