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IBM faces lawsuit for blocking exec's move to Apple
News Court documents filed late on Thursday in a federal court in New York claim that IBM's non-compete agreement with Papermaster shouldn't apply to his employment at Apple, since the two companies are not competitors in the arena where Papermaster...
[November 17, 2008, 11:44]
SCO's lawsuit against IBM hits next stage
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[August 4, 2003, 13:00]
Intel hit with federal antitrust lawsuit in US
Blog Computer manufacturers named in the suit include Dell, HP and IBM — all bar the last were involved in the Commission's case. Intel also threatened to and did in fact punish computer makers that they perceived to be working too closely with Intel's...
[November 4, 2009, 18:20]
IBM adopts fighting talk over SCO Unix suit
News IBM began hitting back on Friday against a SCO Group lawsuit that charges it with misappropriating Unix trade secrets and using them in Linux. Though Fay didn't comment on the specifics of the suit, the tone of IBM's statement indicates the...
[March 10, 2003, 8:21]
Compuware lawsuit targets IBM
News Software company Compuware is charging IBM with using its intellectual property and engaging in illegal tying of its technologies and anti-competitive practices, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Eastern...
[March 13, 2002, 6:31]
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]
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]
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 wants to undermine Linux foundation
News In its lawsuit against IBM, the SCO Group has begun a direct challenge to the General Public Licence -- the legal foundation for Linux, numerous other open-source programming projects and software that SCO still ships today.
[October 29, 2003, 7:50]
SCO site suffers DDoS outage
News Stowell said SCO had no indication who was behind the attack or why it was launched, but the company has incurred the wrath of many Linux enthusiasts infuriated with its lawsuit against IBM. An avalanche of data blocked access to the SCO Group's...
[May 6, 2003, 7:46]
Apple snaps up top IBM chip and blade-server exec
News Mark Papermaster, until recently IBM's vice president of microprocessor technology development, plans in to join Apple in early November in a position that will see him working closely with Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, in what IBM believes is...
[October 31, 2008, 7:25]
How the SCO lawsuit will affect Linux adoption
News In early March, SCO Group filed a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM, accusing it of violating its Unix license. Let's look at the history behind the lawsuit, its effect on customers and competitors in the market, and how IBM could turn this lawsuit...
[April 15, 2003, 9:37]
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]
Experts: Java lawsuit could be tough to win
News Sun filed the private antitrust lawsuit with a California federal court on Friday, seeking damages that could exceed $1bn. Legal experts describe Sun Microsystems' lawsuit against Microsoft as very aggressive and expansive, going well beyond...
[March 11, 2002, 14:57]
SCO target asks for suit to be dismissed
News In a March lawsuit, SCO charged DaimlerChrysler with breaching the Unix contract between the two companies by refusing to certify compliance with the agreement. DaimlerChrysler has asked a judge to dismiss the SCO Group's lawsuit against the...
[April 30, 2004, 9:45]
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: IBM has 'failed to comply'
News The lawsuit, which argues that IBM violated its Unix contract with SCO by moving proprietary Unix technology to open-source Linux, is one of several cases SCO launched to profit from the popularity of Linux by arguing it infringes SCO's Unix...
[July 12, 2004, 9:25]
SCO: Our code is in Linux
News If SCO can link the source code copying to IBM actions, it could have a smoking gun that would dramatically bolsters its lawsuit. As part of its billion-dollar lawsuit against IBM, which charges that Big Blue misappropriated SCO's Unix trade...
[May 2, 2003, 7:22]
IBM denies Unix theft charges
News IBM has denied SCO Group's allegations that it misappropriated Unix trade secrets, but Big Blue isn't giving hints about what its eventual strategy will be for battling the lawsuit. But IBM's strategy for battling the lawsuit, which seeks more than...
[May 2, 2003, 7:36]
SCO unveils code 'evidence'
News When SCO Group first filed its lawsuit against IBM in March, critics characterised the move as the last gasp of an ailing company hoping to strike a series of lucrative licensing deals. I want to see the code myself just to substantiate the claims...
[August 19, 2003, 15:45]
