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Linux lawsuit raises questions for customers
Talkback Looking at who stands to gain from the potential damage that the SCO-IBM lawsuit could have on open-source, I think there are greater forces at work here and one of them begins with 'Micro' and end in 'soft'.
[July 26, 2003, 16:43]
SCO Linux lawsuits could hit users this year
Talkback SCO's lawsuit against Linux users do have merit. Here is an article from LinuxWorld dated 8-2003, about a company called Aduva that created a program to eliminate SCO coding from Linux distributions. If there were no codes copied from System V Unix...
[January 2, 2004, 14:19]
IBM opens new front in Linux legal war
News On Monday, the top Linux seller, Red Hat, filed a separate lawsuit seeking a legal judgment about whether Linux violates SCO's Unix copyrights. The bold initial lawsuit, followed by the equally bold threat that Linux users should pay or face...
[August 7, 2003, 15:00]
Judge agrees to limit SCO claims against IBM
News A Utah judge has thrown out hundreds of claims made by SCO Group in its Linux lawsuit against IBM, finding that SCO failed to specify many of Big Blue's alleged misdeeds. In a ruling filed last week in district court, Judge Brooke Wells agreed with...
[July 3, 2006, 9:40]
One up for SCO in Novell slander case
News A judge has refused a second motion to dismiss SCO's slander lawsuit against Novell in their ongoing Unix intellectual-property rights battle. SCO and Novell are embroiled in a fight over the ownership of copyrights to Unix and Unixware.
[June 30, 2005, 14:45]
IBM drops claims to speed case against SCO
News IBM has dropped its three remaining claims of patent infringement in a lawsuit against the SCO Group, which originally sued IBM in March 2003 over claims it broke a Unix licensing contract by moving technology to Linux.
[October 10, 2005, 9:25]
Red Hat CEO calls for end to 'rumours and innuendo'
News On Monday, Red Hat slapped SCO with a seven-count lawsuit that Szulik said was designed to head off a "campaign of innuendo and rumour". Q: On a gut level, what was your reason for filing the lawsuit.
[August 8, 2003, 10:15]
Q&A: SCO chief on why his company is suing over Linux
News SCO's non grata status among corporations stems from a lawsuit the company filed against computing giant IBM earlier this year in which it claimed that major portions of the Linux software IBM distributes are based on Unix source code SCO controls.
[June 16, 2003, 16:37]
AutoZone asks for stay on SCO case
News AutoZone has asked a court to put a hold on the SCO Group's Linux lawsuit against it -- a case that could have repercussions for any company using the open-source operating system. SCO sued AutoZone in March, arguing that the auto-parts retailer...
[April 28, 2004, 8:30]
SCO files suit in Linux-using court
Talkback Read the lawsuit submission carefully. SCO is *not* suing AutoZone for using Linux, they are suing AutoZone for (supposedly) violating their SCO Unix license. SCO is an extremely adept at confusing the press about exactly what their lawsuits are...
[March 3, 2004, 17:54]
SCO opens new legal front against Novell
News SCO rattled the technology world last year when it filed a $3bn (£1.65bn) lawsuit against IBM, claiming that the computing giant illegally incorporated into its Linux software source code from the Unix OS, which SCO controls.
[January 21, 2004, 9:10]
Industry group says SCO cannot alter old licences
Talkback Actually, the whole lawsuit doesn't hold - SCO realeased its software under the GPL, and once it's under the GPL, you can't take it away. Well, in all honesty, SCO *did* distribute Linux under the GPL, so according to that, they can't charge...
[February 20, 2004, 6:23]
SCO vs the Linux world…What's a Linux user to do?
Talkback An article that does not just repeat the contents of SCO's lawsuit so deliver more confusion to the non-techies. I have read many articles published in the US that sound like they are co-conspirators with SCO in manipulating SCO stock price.
[August 13, 2003, 19:26]
Hidden text reveals SCO's original target
News Examples of the changes made to the Word document that later became SCO's lawsuit against DaimlerChrysler include the following: In the case of SCO's lawsuit against DaimlerChrysler, the Word document identified Bank of America as a defendant until...
[March 5, 2004, 7:30]
Aussie group claims SCO's demands flout law
News IBM lawsuit in the US, the company is on the wrong side of Australia's trading laws. Open Source Victoria claims SCO is violating the Trade Practices Act and has updated its complaint against the company with the Australian Competition and Consumer...
[January 22, 2004, 9:10]
Microsoft to license SCO Group Unix rights
News That code is at the heart of a high-stakes, billion-dollar lawsuit between SCO and IBM, which is aggressively pushing Linux as an alternative to Windows in corporate back shops. Microsoft is acquiring the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a...
[May 19, 2003, 7:33]
SCO may target more hardware makers
News In an interview with CNET News.com, Chris Sontag, senior vice president at SCO, said the Lindon, Utah-based company is likely to file a new suit or amend its controversial lawsuit against IBM to target other companies SCO believes are illegally...
[June 16, 2003, 8:28]
SGI draws SCO's wrath
Talkback And SGI will file a lawsuit, similar to IBM's and/or RedHat's. Give SCO another legal battle to fight, in what I anticipate will be the first three of many similar ones. Too bad SCO will be a bankrupt shell of what they once were (give it 6 months...
[October 6, 2003, 18:52]
Microsoft 'offered to underwrite SCO funding'
Talkback Everyone I know, that is in the business, automatically assumed M$ was the money behind SCO's lawsuit. You would have to be pretty stupid to believe that M$ wasn't involved after all the claims they made about Linux.
[October 10, 2006, 12:12]
Novell defeats SCO in Unix copyright case
News The 102-page ruling by Judge Dale Kimball refuted many of SCO's claims against Novell, and seemed to remove the basis for its lawsuit against IBM. A US federal court judge has ruled that Novell, and not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of...
[August 13, 2007, 8:36]
