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Novell: Customers are coming back

...see this as Novell seeking to benefit from the threat of the SCO lawsuit? I don't think so. It is an offer we are... Read more

13 January, 2004 by Andrew Donoghue

SCO suit won't stop Linux use, says OSDL

Linux users won't be put off by SCO's legal threats, says research on behalf of the Open Source Development Lab Read more

10 February, 2004 by Matt Hines

SCO Linux lawsuits could hit users this year

The first lawsuit from SCO against companies using Linux could land sooner than expected, the company says - and will be independent of the $3bn IBM case Read more

26 November, 2003 by Matt Loney

Torvalds gets legal protection force

The Open Source Development Lab has said that its legal team will represent Torvalds in SCO's Unix lawsuit after the Linux founder was subpoenaed this week Read more

14 November, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

Who really owns Unix?

Allen Brown, president of The Open Group, gives his perspective on the war of words over Unix between SCO and IBM Read more

13 June, 2003 by Allen Brown

How the SCO lawsuit will affect Linux adoption

SCO feels cheated out of its Unix code and has decided to file suit against IBM. How this lawsuit will play out is anybody's guess. Find out how SCO got to this point and how the action will affect the Linux market Read more

15 April, 2003 by Tim Landgrave

SCO wanted to gag Torvalds

...particular weight in industry and popular press." Eric Raymond had called the SCO lawsuit against IBM "a farce". Both Raymond and Moglen had been critical... Read more

30 April, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft takes swipe at Linux vendors' legal story

...the Linux platform. Microsoft criticised HP for only providing protection against a SCO lawsuit and claimed that HP used its indemnification to force customers to... Read more

5 November, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

SCO: IBM has 'failed to comply'

...intellectual property. Novell -- an earlier Unix owner, current Linux seller and another SCO lawsuit target -- argues it still owns the Unix copyrights. SCO's claim... Read more

12 July, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Investor wants to pull out of SCO

...still owns the copyrights, a matter that's the subject of another SCO lawsuit. In its most recent quarter, SCO spent $3.4m on the... Read more

19 April, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

The march of Linux in the enterprise

Linux is becoming a real alternative for enterprises but the risks and costs have to be considered alongside the benefits Read more

11 March, 2004 by Edward Younger and George Weiss

Linux developers warned to watch their backs

In the wake of the ongoing SCO lawsuit, open-source developers must take steps to ensure they don't... Read more

15 January, 2004 by Angus Kidman

Why IBM wanted a piece of Novell's SuSE action

...s prospective big-iron Linux customers were getting cold feet over the SCO lawsuit. But my hunch is that some were demanding the assurances of... Read more

6 November, 2003 by David Berlind

Boldly Googling into the future

...more than 10,000 servers) -- what's your opinion of the recent SCO lawsuit and what it could mean for Linux users if it's... Read more

2 October, 2003 by Andrew Donoghue

Linux's commercial destiny in doubt

...pricing drives customers away or because the cost of defending against the SCO lawsuit drives it out of business. Either way, hosting companies, corporations, and... Read more

25 September, 2003 by Tim Landgrave

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