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Q&A: SCO chief on why his company is suing over Linux

...McBride, chief executive of SCO, explains how the lawsuit with IBM over Linux source code came about, and how he feels about the open-source... Read more

16 June, 2003 by David Becker
Red Hat embraces KVM virtualisation

Red Hat embraces KVM virtualisation

...for its adoption: Linux leader Linus Torvalds accepted KVM into the main Linux source code tree in February, a move that makes maintenance and debugging... Read more

15 February, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

SCO dodges knockout blow

A judge in the United States issued a damning indictment of SCO's case against IBM, citing the 'complete lack' of evidence, but did not grant a summary judgement in IBM's favour Read more

10 February, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Linux vendors hit back at Ballmer's email

...is no existing software infrastructure." "The ability to modify and customize the Linux source code affords customers the most intriguing possibilities for custom application development... Read more

28 October, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

Linux creator nets Economist honour

...computer science student at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He made the Linux source code available so that developers could modify it to suit their... Read more

16 September, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

SP2 trips over itself

...computerised portion of it). And although he may secretly hope that all Linux source code spontaneously combusts, that isn't his biggest wish. No, the... Read more

24 August, 2004 by Mike Ricciuti

SCO loses key case

The company has failed to win its case against DaimlerChrysler for infringements of its Unix intellectual property Read more

22 July, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Novell: The comeback kid

BrainShare: Novell's chief executive and chairman Jack Messman says contrary to popular belief his company learnt a lot from its mid-nineties tussle with Microsoft – and now it's got the Linux community in its corner Read more

24 March, 2004 by Andrew Donoghue

Legal questions surround Windows code leak

...of developers familiar with SCO Group's byzantine lawsuit against IBM over Linux source code, Watts says reading the Windows code is unlikely to poison... Read more

13 February, 2004 by Matthew Broersma

SCO wants to undermine Linux foundation

SCO is attacking the General Public Licence, saying it violates the US Constitution Read more

29 October, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

IBM launches another SCO counterattack

Big Blue has accused SCO, which is pursing legal action against Linux users, of infringing IBM copyrights Read more

29 September, 2003 by David Becker

SCO prepares to send invoices for Linux

...companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. SCO argues that some Linux source code was copied directly from Unix. It also claims that other... Read more

3 September, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

SAP and SuSE team up for support

...ranging from help with SAP applications to assistance with issues surrounding the Linux source code. In addition, SuSE said it will incorporate fixes to customer... Read more

24 July, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

Intel makes 'linear scaling' Linux server

...of the upgrade came through improvements in "compilation", the process by which Linux source code is translated into instructions the computer understands. The team used... Read more

6 June, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

Legal action shuts SCO Web site

...independent open-source movement. SCO's actions stemmed from investigations of the Linux source code undertaken for its $1bn (£610m) lawsuit against IBM, alleging that... Read more

4 June, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

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Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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