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SCO reschedules lawsuit revelation
News The SCO Group plans to begin legal action against Linux users on Tuesday -- probably two separate companies -- but an announcement of the names won't come until Wednesday, the company said. SCO chief executive Darl McBride said on Monday that the...
[March 3, 2004, 7:20]
Industry group says SCO cannot alter old licences
Talkback Actually, the whole lawsuit doesn't hold - SCO realeased its software under the GPL, and once it's under the GPL, you can't take it away. Well, in all honesty, SCO *did* distribute Linux under the GPL, so according to that, they can't charge...
[February 20, 2004, 6:23]
Red Hat has 'no grounds' for lawsuit, says SCO
News SCO rattled the technology world early this year by filing a $3bn (£1.87bn) lawsuit against IBM, claiming that the computing giant illegally incorporated into its Linux software source code from the Unix operating system, which SCO controls.
[September 16, 2003, 9:00]
McBride outlines SCO's lawsuit strategy
News Click on this link to view the video.
[March 3, 2004, 13:50]
SCO admits business risks of IBM lawsuit
News SCO Group warned in a regulatory filing that its billion-dollar lawsuit alleging that IBM misappropriated trade secrets will be costly and could alienate others in the computing industry. There is also a risk that the lawsuit against IBM will be...
[April 1, 2003, 7:43]
SCO readies lawsuit against 'recognised name'
News The SCO Group plans to expand its Linux legal attack on Tuesday by filing a lawsuit against a large company using the open-source operating system. SCO chief executive Darl McBride announced the plan on Monday at the Software 2004 conference, but...
[March 2, 2004, 7:40]
Microsoft to license SCO Group Unix rights
News That code is at the heart of a high-stakes, billion-dollar lawsuit between SCO and IBM, which is aggressively pushing Linux as an alternative to Windows in corporate back shops. Microsoft is acquiring the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a...
[May 19, 2003, 7:33]
Aussie group claims SCO's demands flout law
News IBM lawsuit in the US, the company is on the wrong side of Australia's trading laws. Our group's position is that if SCO has not proven ownership to the UNIX IP, nor proven that any of this IP is now in Linux, then to make the representations.that...
[January 22, 2004, 9:10]
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. We have a perpetual licence rather than per copy licence for HP-UX.We don't believe we have any exposure...
[March 10, 2003, 8:21]
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. The most obvious question is, "How did SCO Group get the footing to file such a lawsuit anyway?
[April 15, 2003, 9:37]
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 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]
IBM and SCO gather reinforcements
News Subpoenas are flying in the high-profile lawsuit between the SCO Group and IBM, as both companies try to buttress their legal claims by turning to third parties for information. IBM has also broadened its efforts to respond to the Linux-related...
[November 13, 2003, 7:35]
SCO attacks Novell over Linux sales
News The claim is in an amendment SCO proposes to make to its lawsuit against Novell, whose sales of Linux, SCO argues, violate SCO's purported Unix copyrights. Its first lawsuit against IBM in March 2003, SCO accused IBM of misappropriating trade...
[January 9, 2006, 11:00]
SCO fined in Germany over Linux claims
News SCO has repeatedly claimed that Linux is an unlawful derivative of Unix, but had agreed not to make this claim anymore in Germany, following a lawsuit in 2003. The ruling was made in a Munich district court this week, in response to a complaint...
[August 21, 2008, 16:29]
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]
IBM: Our Unix licence is irrevocable
News In the wake of SCO's lawsuit, SuSE chief executive Richard Seibt said on Friday that his company is "re-evaluating our relationship with the SCO Group. SCO, inheritor of many of the rights to the Unix operating system initially developed by AT&T...
[March 11, 2003, 13:00]
Microsoft takes swipe at Linux vendors' legal story
Talkback In response to the Anonymous feedback, Struan Robertson said that it is "unlikely for the end user to be sued", although he pointed out that it was possible, as could be seen from the SCO lawsuit. The SCO lawsuit took place and therefore shows that...
[November 8, 2004, 15:02]
SCO Group's war on Linux
News SCO admits business risks of IBM lawsuit 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...
[May 19, 2003, 14:03]
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]
