] In a letter on its Web site from Novell CEO and President
] Jack Messman, the Provo, Utah-based company lashed out by
] challenging SCO's assertion that it owns the copyrights
] and patents to Unix System V. Novell, which had earlier
] acquired the Unix systems business of AT&T Corp., broke
] up and sold its Unix properties in 1994 and 1995. One of
] those deals was with the former Santa Cruz Operation,
] which was bought by Caldera International Inc. and later
] became The SCO Group.

http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html
The Letter from Jack Messman to SCO

Novell calls on SCO to prove allegations about Linux - Computerworld