Karsten Self discovered this interesting tidbit in SCO's 10K report:
The Company has an arrangement with Novell, Inc. ("Novell") in which it acts as an administrative agent in the collection of royalties for customers who deploy SVRx technology. Under the agency agreement, the Company collects all customer payments and remits 95 percent of the collected funds to Novell and retains 5 percent as an administrative fee. The Company records the 5 percent administrative fee as revenue in its consolidated statements of operations. The accompanying October 31, 2002 and 2001 consolidated balance sheets reflect the amounts collected related to this agency agreement but not yet remitted to Novell of $1,428,000 and $1,894,000, respectively, as restricted cash and royalty payable to Novell. The October 31, 2001 balances were reclassified from cash and equivalents and other royalties payable to conform to the current year presentation.This is SCO's admission that Novell owns Unix System V, all revisions - that's what they mean by "SVRx", and SCO pays Novell 95% of the royalties. SCO gets to keep 5% as administrative agent.
This proves the Novell allegation. SCO officers have loudly and repeatedly stated that they own the Unix intellectual property. Those statements were prevarications.
SCO may also have intended to decieve by calling the software SVRx instead of something more easily identifiable as Unix.
Update: But E-Week says Novell contradicts me! See this story. I haven't yet direct word from Novell. - Bruce