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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]
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 dodges knockout blow
News In addition to several references in the IBM case, SCO also put the claim at the centre of its lawsuit against Linux user and former SCO customer AutoZone. IBM in 2004 sought a declaration through that its Linux activities hadn't violated SCO's...
[February 10, 2005, 8:05]
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. Among claims in SCO's lawsuit is the allegation that "IBM is affirmatively taking steps to destroy all...
[March 10, 2003, 8:21]
SCO site suffers DDoS outage
News An avalanche of data blocked access to the SCO Group's Web site for several hours on Friday, said the company, which has come under fire from Linux fans for an ongoing lawsuit against IBM. Stowell said SCO had no indication who was behind the...
[May 6, 2003, 7:46]
SCO admits business risks of IBM lawsuit
News Unintended consequences of our lawsuit against IBM may adversely affect our business," the seller of Unix and Linux products warned last week in a regulatory filing that permits two major shareholders to sell all their stock.
[April 1, 2003, 7:43]
Red Hat demands action on SCO case
News Robinson issued a hold in the Delaware case in April until a separate but related lawsuit filed by SCO against IBM had been resolved in Utah federal court. Red Hat has asked a federal judge to reverse her decision to put its copyright-related...
[April 21, 2004, 9:15]
Q&A: SCO chief on why his company is suing over Linux
News SCO's non grata status among corporations stems from a lawsuit the company filed against computing giant IBM earlier this year in which it claimed that major portions of the Linux software IBM distributes are based on Unix source code SCO controls.
[June 16, 2003, 16:37]
SCO attacks Novell over Linux sales
News Its first lawsuit against IBM in March 2003, SCO accused IBM of misappropriating trade secrets, but it dropped that claim in an amended suit in February 2004. The claim is in an amendment SCO proposes to make to its lawsuit against Novell, whose...
[January 9, 2006, 11:00]
SCO target asks for suit to be dismissed
News DaimlerChrysler has asked a judge to dismiss the SCO Group's lawsuit against the company, one of several high-profile cases that have entangled Linux in SCO's intellectual-property claims over Unix. In a March lawsuit, SCO charged DaimlerChrysler...
[April 30, 2004, 9:45]
SCO dangles Linux-licence carrot
News SCO's lawsuit against IBM hits next stage 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...
[July 22, 2003, 7:51]
SCO opens new legal front against Novell
News SCO rattled the technology world last year when it filed a $3bn (£1.65bn) lawsuit against IBM, claiming that the computing giant illegally incorporated into its Linux software source code from the Unix OS, which SCO controls.
[January 21, 2004, 9:10]
SCO may have SGI in crosshairs
News A new SCO lawsuit against SGI would mean significant new work to shoulder in addition to the Lindon, Utah-based company's case against IBM and its campaign to get all commercial Linux users to pay SCO hundreds of dollars per server to use the...
[September 8, 2003, 9:00]
Hidden text reveals SCO's original target
News SCO previously had said that it expected to file a lawsuit against a Linux user by mid-February. Examples of the changes made to the Word document that later became SCO's lawsuit against DaimlerChrysler include the following:
[March 5, 2004, 7:30]
JBoss offers customers legal protection
News The issue of legal indemnification has been highlighted by SCO's lawsuit against IBM, which claims that IBM illegally incorporated code from the Unix operating system into Linux. We're not going to press a lawsuit or take anyone to court.
[November 17, 2003, 8:37]
Sun emerges from shadows holding SCO licence
News That type of action is at the heart of SCO's IBM lawsuit, which claims that IBM took code it initially developed for its AIX version of Unix and then moved it to open-source Linux projects. The highest-profile result of that effort has been an SCO...
[July 11, 2003, 8:05]
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 keeps disputed code secret
News When the SCO Group finally lays its cards on the table in its upcoming lawsuit against IBM, the open-source community won't be given the opportunity to see them. IBM last week successfully persuaded the judge presiding over the case to give SCO 30...
[December 16, 2003, 8:20]
Novell reveals Linux philosophy
News This lawsuit illustrates that SCO's campaign against enterprise adoption of Linux is foundering. In the press conference, Messman criticised SCO Group's lawsuit filed on Tuesday against Novell. Novell intends to vigorously defend the lawsuit.
[January 22, 2004, 8:20]
