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Inside The Linux Arcana
Talkback First of all the SCO case against IBM is a copyright case. Copyright protects expressions of ideas not the ideas themselves. We can assume from the outset that SCO has all the rights to Unix that it claims and it still would have no case against...
[March 19, 2004, 3:19]
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. Copyright infringement is a major new element to SCO's current accusations...
[February 6, 2004, 7:15]
The Patent Nuclear Weapon
Talkback SCO's case is not centered around copyright. IBM happens to own the copyright on the code they developed and contributed to Linux. As such, it is a contractual dispute, not a copyright claim. Your point about software patents is valid in general...
[October 1, 2003, 2:58]
McBride Denied Telephone Service
Talkback That is SCO have no copyright case going yet they threaten end user with copyright suit if they don't pay up. The people in the Linux community usually feel strongly about IP and copyright law. This is even more funny since the ones that is...
[February 5, 2004, 9:47]
Linux Insurance Goes On Sale
News Open Source Risk Management plans on Monday to begin selling Linux users protection against copyright infringement claims such as those levied by the SCO Group. The evaluation uncovered no copyright problems with versions 2.4 or 2.6 of Linux's...
[April 19, 2004, 8:25]
SCO's Legal Gun Takes Aim At Linux
Talkback If this were not the case then every book printer in the US would be in violation even though they have a licence from the copyright holder. The US copyright law places no restrictions on a copyright holder to licence others to produce their works...
[August 22, 2003, 14:02]
IBM Asks Court To Say No To SCO Claims
News SCO seeks to dismiss or stay IBM's claims for a declaration of non-infringement," the filing reads, "on the theory that, while the future of the global economy may hang in the balance, the issue of IBM's copyright infringement should be decided...
[May 21, 2004, 8:50]
IBM Wants Judgement On SCO's Linux Copyright
News The case has since ballooned into a far-ranging attack on Linux, going on to accumulate copyright, patent and other claims and ballooning to $5bn (£6.1bn) in damage claims. IBM is seeking a judicial judgment against Linux antagonist the SCO Group...
[March 31, 2004, 9:00]
SCO Attacks Novell Over Linux Sales
News After three years of accusations, SCO Group has finally begun aiming a legal charge of copyright infringement toward a Linux supplier. That amended suit added a charge of copyright infringement, but it was limited to IBM's continuing shipment of...
[January 9, 2006, 11:00]
IBM Wins Tactical Victory In SCO Fight
News To the original charges in the case, SCO plans to add a new one: copyright infringement. Since May, SCO has been saying they have proof of copyright violations by IBM and the rest of the Linux community, yet they've provided nothing that's been...
[December 8, 2003, 8:15]
McBride Reaches For Rhetoric In Linux Battle
News The company signed an agreement with the law firm of David Boies, who is already handling its case against IBM, to include other Linux-related copyright cases. In an open letter posted on the SCO Web site Thursday, McBride argues that the General...
[December 8, 2003, 13:45]
SCO Dodges Knockout Blow
News The copyright issue is central to SCO's position in the $5bn case, which sent shock waves through the computing industry when SCO began it in 2003. Kimball called it "puzzling" that SCO denies it's making this broader copyright infringement claim.
[February 10, 2005, 8:05]
SuSE Linux Forced To Stop Distribution
News A SuSE spokesperson in the UK explained that the case, brought by a plaintiff who is believed to hold the copyright on a program called Crayon, concerns potential copyright infringement by a program called Krayon, which is bundled on the CDs.
[January 8, 2002, 18:50]
SCO Signs Up First Linux Licensee
News SCO Group, the Unix copyright holder that's threatening Linux-using companies with legal action if they don't pay for a licence to run the open-source operating system, said on Monday that one company in the Fortune 500 list of the world's biggest...
[August 12, 2003, 9:10]
Torvalds Lambastes DVD Lawsuits
News One of the programmers, 16-year-old Jon Johansen of Norway, was brought up on charges of copyright violation and interrogated by police. In December, the DVD Copyright Control Association sued 500 unnamed plantiffs for linking to the source code of...
[February 2, 2000, 17:04]
SCO Wants $5bn From IBM
News The case now rests on claims that IBM violated its contract by creating derivative works based on SCO-controlled code -- and on new copyright-related claims. IBM's "post-termination actions have infringed, have induced infringement of, and have...
[February 9, 2004, 7:15]
Microsoft Goes Dutch In Lindows Battle
News Although Microsoft has acknowledged that its operating-system dominance is increasingly threatened by the growing popularity of Linux, Drake said that has no bearing on the copyright lawsuits. Now Microsoft is taking the ridiculous position that...
[May 12, 2004, 9:10]
Linux Rivals Settle Lawsuit
News MontaVista Software accused its competitor Lineo in April 2002 of selling software that originally came from MontaVista and had its copyright notices removed, said Jason Wachal, MontaVista's lead lawyer.
[October 14, 2003, 9:30]
Norway Piracy Case Brings Activists Hope
News Internet and technology activists are hoping the acquittal of Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen in a digital piracy case signals a change in attitudes about copyright in the digital age. In the ElcomSoft case, a jury ruled in December that the...
[January 9, 2003, 9:02]
Missing GPL Detail May Make It Harder To Enforce
News If the author of GPL-licensed product discovers that a company has not adhered to the terms and conditions of the licence, the individual may find it difficult to argue his case in court as the defending party could argue that the copyright...
[June 1, 2005, 15:35]
