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IBM and SCO gather reinforcements
News IBM has also broadened its efforts to respond to the Linux-related lawsuit by asking a federal judge to order SCO to identify illegal source code and by serving four other companies with subpoenas of its own.
[November 13, 2003, 7:35]
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. The company launched its initial suit against IBM in 2003, claiming Big Blue...
[July 3, 2006, 9:40]
Sun may shelter Java users from SCO
News So far, SCO has sued IBM for allegedly misappropriating Unix code and said it will seek payment from corporate Linux users. Sun is contemplating adding an unusual provision to some of its Java licenses under which the company would agree to protect...
[September 11, 2003, 9:40]
Open source community wooed by Microsoft
Talkback Just because they funded SCO, said Linux was illegal because it was free. "Microsoft was anti-open source. Why would anyone think that? Because they don't want the competition from an OS that works. If you can't trust M$, then who can you trust?
[June 29, 2006, 16:56]
Jon Hall: Open source should be protected from 'looters'
News Hall compared the ongoing legal battle between The SCO Group and the open-source community to the looting of Iraq's national treasures following the recent war in the Gulf. The open-source development community is an international treasure and...
[June 24, 2003, 11:45]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback Smithy, if the person who wrote the virus that attacked SCO is a Linux loon, then would it follow that the people who collaborated to attack the Debian server are all Microsoft goons?
[January 29, 2004, 7:36]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback Jonsaw : " Smithy, if the person who wrote the virus that attacked SCO is a Linux loon, then would it follow that the people who collaborated to attack the Debian server are all Microsoft goons? Most Microsoft Microsoft software users are just...
[January 29, 2004, 20:36]
Industry group says SCO cannot alter old licences
Talkback Well, in all honesty, SCO *did* distribute Linux under the GPL, so according to that, they can't charge anything for it. Actually, the whole lawsuit doesn't hold - SCO realeased its software under the GPL, and once it's under the GPL, you can't...
[February 20, 2004, 6:23]
Novell offers Linux protection, as SuSE deal completed
News Novell expects this week to begin offering SuSE Linux customers some legal protection for using the open-source operating system, marking the fourth legal umbrella provided by a computing industry grappling with legal threats brought by the SCO...
[January 13, 2004, 7:25]
Novell claims SCO's Unix rights are limited
News SCO rattled the technology world last year when it sued IBM, claiming that the computing giant illegally incorporated into its Linux software source code from the Unix operating system, which SCO controls.
[February 12, 2004, 13:25]
Australians told to ignore SCO's letters
News A newly formed Australian free- and open-source software industry group is urging companies and individuals to ignore SCO's push to secure licence revenues from Linux users. OSIA argues in the paper that Australian enterprises and individuals using...
[May 26, 2004, 9:55]
IBM touts Linux expertise
Talkback Microsoft is using SCO to get to Linux (or at least control it). People have to make a decision, either triple Microsoft's monopoly or give them honest healthy competition the world desperately need.
[August 6, 2003, 14:28]
SCO takes softly, softly approach downunder
News The SCO Group is initially soft-pedalling threats of lawsuits against Australian and New Zealand companies who use Linux, as it starts marketing licences to secure revenue for use of the open source software.
[January 20, 2004, 9:40]
Novell criticises SCO's suits
News At the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, Novell's Chris Stone scoffs at the SCO Group's legal battle against Novell and other Linux users over Unix copyright claims. He also discusses why companies are embracing open source and...
[March 18, 2004, 9:50]
Caldera loads Linux apps on UnixWare
News Open Unix 8 will allow Linux applications to run on the Unix kernel that Caldera is inheriting with its pending acquisition of the operating systems and professional services divisions of Unix stalwart SCO.
[March 27, 2001, 12:21]
SCO Web site attacked again
News Hackers defaced SCO Group's Web site on Monday, targeting the company's controversial claims to elements of the Linux operating system. The latest assault was aimed at SCO's long-running campaign that seeks compensation from companies selling and...
[November 29, 2004, 16:00]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback The code is out there, it is part of the open-source Linux Kernel, as published by SCO itself using the GPL. So all this is just more tactics from SCO. Anybody who says otherwise is either a SCO stockholder, a Microsoft employee or needs his head...
[December 17, 2003, 6:37]
Microsoft rings up cash-register customers
News IHL's study said Linux's success in the market -- earlier predicted by analysts -- had been held back by lack of drivers, as well as by the threat of SCO Group lawsuits. Microsoft said on Wednesday that six major European customers have agreed to...
[March 11, 2004, 15:20]
Torvalds gets legal protection force
News SCO Group, owner of key Unix copyrights, sued IBM in March, alleging that Big Blue transferred technology from proprietary Unix to open-source Linux against the terms of its contract with SCO. The suit has expanded significantly: SCO now seeks at...
[November 14, 2003, 10:05]
Open-source experts deride SCO's 'evidence'
News SCO's display of code it alleges was copied into the Linux kernel by IBM -- a piece of evidence critical to its US$3bn lawsuit against Big Blue -- has come under fire from Linus Torvalds and Linux advocates who claim the code shown was...
[August 20, 2003, 9:00]
