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SCO Group's war on Linux
News Tues 1 April A regulatory filing by SCO has warned of some of the potential consequences for the company of its lawsuit with IBM over Unix licences Mon 10 March The tone of IBM's response indicates that it will not knuckle under to SCO's $1bn...
[May 19, 2003, 14:03]
IBM demands details of SCO dealings with HP, Microsoft, Sun
News Back in March 2003, SCO filed a lawsuit alleging that IBM had included code from Unix in Linux, which SCO claimed was a violation of its intellectual property. However, Novell then claimed that it, rather than SCO, owned the copyright on Unix...
[February 22, 2006, 12:55]
Red Hat enterprise business grows
News Stemming from that $1bn lawsuit was SCO's accusation that Unix code was copied directly into Linux and a warning to 1,500 large companies that using Linux could get them in legal trouble. Let me state clearly for the record that we're not a party...
[June 18, 2003, 8:01]
Red Hat's results rocket to all-time highs
News It's entangled in a high-profile lawsuit in which the SCO Group, owner of several Unix copyrights, sued IBM for $3bn for allegedly moving Unix technology to Linux against the terms of its contract with SCO.
[December 19, 2003, 7:35]
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]
SCO suit fails to deter Linux use
News New research indicates that SCO Group's lawsuit over the use of Unix source code in the Linux operating system has not discouraged developers from implementing Linux-oriented software. A survey of roughly 400 software developers completed by...
[August 5, 2003, 8:35]
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]
SCO dangles Linux-licence carrot
News The company, which is at the heart of a controversial lawsuit over Linux code, said it plans to offer licences that will support run-time, binary use of Linux to all companies that use Linux kernel versions 2.4 and later.
[July 22, 2003, 7:51]
SCO bans press from Open Systems briefing
News SCO Group earlier this year launched a $1bn lawsuit against IBM, claiming Big Blue had misappropriated trade secrets by building Unix IP into Linux. The SCO Group's Australian managing director has played down a move to bar media outlets from his...
[May 29, 2003, 9:09]
IBM: Our Unix licence is irrevocable
News SCO, inheritor of many of the rights to the Unix operating system initially developed by AT&T, filed a billion-dollar lawsuit on Thursday alleging IBM violated its trade secrets by implementing ideas from Unix in the open-source Linux operating...
[March 11, 2003, 13:00]
SCO reveals Linux legal targets
News The AutoZone lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Nevada, requests injunctive relief against AutoZone's further use or copying of any part of SCO's copyrighted materials and also requests damages as a result of AutoZone's infringement in an...
[March 3, 2004, 13:50]
SCO adds another accusation to IBM case
News SCO Group has significantly widened its Unix and Linux lawsuit against IBM, adding a copyright infringement claim to the already complicated case, sources said on Thursday. SCO, meanwhile, has said the copyright claims will be involved in a lawsuit...
[February 6, 2004, 7:15]
SCO accepts $50m investment
News Gartner analyst George Weiss, however, believes the $3bn lawsuit against IBM overshadows all else. SCO sells the Unix operating system and licenses it to others, but more controversially, it has sued IBM over Big Blue's treatment of Unix and argues...
[October 17, 2003, 9:30]
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]
Microsoft fires back at Sun in Java case
News In a court filing, the software giant asked a judge for attorney's fees and damages to cover what it characterised as Sun's unlawful violation of a settlement inked in an earlier lawsuit over the Java programming language.
[February 24, 2003, 8:10]
SCO Linux lawsuits could hit users this year
News Blepp said it would be folly of companies to wait for the outcome of its lawsuit against IBM. Although the first recipients of a lawsuit from SCO are likely to be in the US, said Blepp, the process will be conducted globally.
[November 26, 2003, 10:30]
SCO 'must show more code' - judge
News SCO, which in 2003 scrapped its own Linux sales effort after failing to make financial headway, wants Linux customers to pay $699 for a licence that will let them use the software without fear of an intellectual property infringement lawsuit from...
[March 4, 2004, 7:15]
SCO Group unveils Linux for Itanium
News SCO Group, which gained notoriety for a Linux-related lawsuit it filed against IBM last month, released a version of Linux for Intel's Itanium processor family on Tuesday. But IBM abandoned Project Monterey in favour of Linux, a move that...
[April 16, 2003, 7:39]
Open-source experts deride SCO's 'evidence'
News When AT&T took BSD to court back in 1992 in a case that is similar to the SCO lawsuit, AT&T, in the form of Unix System Laboratories, lost. SCO's display of code it alleges was copied into the Linux kernel by IBM -- a piece of evidence critical...
[August 20, 2003, 9:00]
SuSE, SCO bullish on profits
News It filed a lawsuit alleging that IBM misappropriated SCO's Unix trade secrets, has claimed Unix code was illegally copied directly into Linux and earlier this month withdrew its own Linux product. But SCO Group has all but abandoned that in favour...
[May 29, 2003, 7:35]
