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SCO Signs Up First Linux Licensee
News One could imagine SCO making some particularly nervous chief executive or CIO a sweetheart 'first licensee' deal just so they could send out this press release," Haff said. SCO Group, the Unix copyright holder that's threatening Linux-using...
[August 12, 2003, 9:10]
SCO Signs Up First Linux Licensee
Talkback I wonder if it was microsoft who chose to run windowsupdate.com on Linux to secure itself against it's own virus.see this link:http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph? site=www.windowsupdate.com
[August 15, 2003, 20:34]
SCO Signs Up First Linux Licensee
Talkback I think SCO is lying about having a company pay any licensing fees. If they are so adamant about having people pay, why not come out and say which one? It's the same as with the code. Lies after lies.
[August 15, 2003, 16:26]
SCO Signs Up First Linux Licensee
Talkback SCO claims Linux is in violation of its IP - "So it says". SCO seems to be showing nothing but demanding a lot, disregarding the fact that it may, itself, be carrying out actions in direct violation of both National Laws governing business...
[August 12, 2003, 11:13]
SCO Names Linux Licensee
Talkback SCO has dropped the IP claim, so why purchase licences from them at all? Come on ZDNet, get your facts right!
[March 2, 2004, 7:39]
SCO Names Linux Licensee
News The SCO Group, which claims ownership to the Unix operating system, identified on Monday a company that has agreed to sign a licence to use Linux. EV1Servers.net, a company that hosts Web sites for clients and a division of Everyones Internet...
[March 1, 2004, 16:20]
Linux To Get Windows NT Apps
News MainSoft is a somewhat unlikely white knight, however, as the company is a close Microsoft partner and Windows source code licensee. The dearth of business applications for Linux could become a problem of the past, if MainSoft has its way.
[October 19, 1999, 8:23]
Linux Everywhere: The Penguin Goes Mobile
News Another handheld device maker attracting notice is Handspring, a licensee of Palm's OS that was started by Palm's co-founders. We're seeing a ton of development on Linux," said Lynn Comp, product marketing engineer at Intel's handheld computing...
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
Torvalds Wades Into Linux Trademark Row
News Last month, a lawyer acting on behalf of Linus Torvalds wrote to 90 companies in Australia asking them to relinquish any legal claim to the name Linux and to purchase a licence from the Linux Mark Institute (LMI), a non-profit organisation that is...
[August 22, 2005, 13:30]
IBM To Release Bluetooth Tool For Linux Developers
News The tool will be officially announced 7 November along with news that a major telecommunications company will be a licensee, the company said during a panel discussion here. IBM officials Tuesday said the company will be releasing BlueDrekar, a...
[November 1, 2000, 9:22]
SuSE: SCO's Anti-Linux Attacks Are 'curious'
News Thus far, SCO's legal attacks have been limited to IBM, a SCO licensee, which it claims used SCO's trade secrets illegally to improve Linux. SuSE Linux has said it plans to continue honouring its commitments to Linux group UnitedLinux, despite...
[May 15, 2003, 13:46]
SCO Warns Businesses Over Linux Liabilities
News IBM, a SCO licensee, was sued in March for more than $1bn, or about £640m, on allegations that include inappropriately using Unix trade secrets to improve Linux. SCO Group, a financially struggling company that claims its Unix intellectual property...
[May 15, 2003, 7:28]
Computer Associates Buys SCO's Linux Licence
News SCO announced in August that a Fortune 500 company had signed a licence, but it wasn't until this week that SCO publicly identified its first licensee, EV1Servers.net. The SCO Group confirmed on Thursday that three more companies -- Computer...
[March 5, 2004, 7:45]
PalmSource Pushes On With Linux Plans
News Last week the OS got its first licensee, Hong Kong-based Group Sense PDA, which said it would ship a smartphone based on Cobalt in the US by the fourth quarter of 2005. PalmSource joined the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) this week...
[March 10, 2005, 15:45]
SCO's Legal Gun Takes Aim At Linux
News It was another Unix licensee that violated the terms of their licensing agreement. You'll see copyright IBM; you'll see copyright any other UNIX licensee, but it's not coming from us. It was another Unix licensee that violated the terms of their...
[August 22, 2003, 9:25]
SCO Wants To Undermine Linux Foundation
News Absent the GPL, the licensee has no right to use the copyrighted subject matter," Byer said. 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...
[October 29, 2003, 7:50]
How The SCO Lawsuit Will Affect Linux Adoption
News SCO, a former AT&T Unix licensee, had been the primary source of independent Unix distributions. But while Sun and HP have continued to support their existing Unix platforms, IBM has aggressively moved to displace its own Unix derivative with Linux.
[April 15, 2003, 9:37]
Microsoft 'offered To Underwrite SCO Funding'
News SCO sued Linux user AutoZone, Unix licensee DaimlerChrysler and Linux advocate IBM. Microsoft played a key role in encouraging SCO's ongoing legal campaign around the Linux operating system vendors and users, according to court papers filed recently.
[October 9, 2006, 13:35]
BayStar Buys More Of SCO
News The company has sued Linux user AutoZone, Unix licensee DaimlerChrysler and Linux advocate IBM, in connection with the case, and is fighting Novell's claim that it never sold the Unix copyrights to SCO.
[May 10, 2004, 12:35]
SCO Reports Further Financial Gloom
News It's also engaged in related litigation with Linux user AutoZone, Unix licensee DaimlerChrysler, Linux seller Red Hat and earlier Unix owner Novell. SCO is suing IBM, arguing that Big Blue violated its Unix contract with SCO by moving proprietary...
[December 22, 2004, 7:45]
