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SCO Group's war on Linux
News Microsoft to license SCO Group Unix rights Mon 19 May The Windows maker has stepped into the fray surrounding SCO Group's efforts to increase its revenues from its Unix intellectual property, which include accusations against Linux
[May 19, 2003, 14:03]
SCO group wins Unix copyright appeal
News SCO Group, whose six-year-old legal case arguing Linux infringes its Unix copyright has not been enough to keep it from bankruptcy court, nevertheless won an important victory in its case on Monday. A federal judge had earlier ruled that Novell had...
[August 26, 2009, 8:27]
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. The software is based on version 1.0 of the Linux distribution from the...
[April 16, 2003, 7:39]
Industry group fights SCO with Linux education
Talkback In the article : "Industry group fights SCO with Linux education", by Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK, November 27, 2003. SCO, which owns Unix intellectual property. Well, in fact this point (SCO owns Unix intellectual property) is not proved in any way...
[November 27, 2003, 18:46]
Industry group fights SCO with Linux education
News The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a Linux consortium funded by most of the computing industry's major companies, has launched the open-source industry's latest counterattack to the SCO Group's attack on Linux: an education campaign designed...
[November 27, 2003, 13:05]
Industry group says SCO cannot alter old licences
News An open-source industry group has filed a new complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission against controversial software company the SCO Group, saying the vendor is attempting to alter previously granted licences.
[February 19, 2004, 9:00]
Microsoft to license SCO Group Unix rights
News Microsoft is acquiring the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a move that could impact the battle between Windows and Linux in the market for computer operating systems. Then last year, Caldera changed its name to SCO Group to reflect the...
[May 19, 2003, 7:33]
Aussie group claims SCO's demands flout law
Talkback From what I have seen the majority of the SCO letters demanding payment for Linux make very little mention of the fact that they have not won (and indeed are not likely to win) any legal battle over the ownership of Linux and haven't even produced...
[January 22, 2004, 12:46]
Industry group says SCO cannot alter old licences
Talkback Just ignore, just forget about (what ever was the name)
[February 19, 2004, 15:29]
Industry group says SCO cannot alter old licences
Talkback Well, in all honesty, SCO *did* distribute Linux under the GPL, so according to that, they can't charge anything for it. Actually, the whole lawsuit doesn't hold - SCO realeased its software under the GPL, and once it's under the GPL, you can't...
[February 20, 2004, 6:23]
Microsoft to license SCO Group Unix rights
Talkback one of my 3 icons are not working on my morpheus player.Can you help me install just that?
[March 8, 2004, 14:03]
Aussie group claims SCO's demands flout law
News 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] Linux users need to acquire a licence from SCO would be a false representation," a...
[January 22, 2004, 9:10]
SCO wants another $2bn from IBM
News In March, SCO Group surprised the world with a lawsuit seeking more than $1bn against IBM in the case. The amended suit also asserts that SCO holds copyrights to Unix, a point that could be key in future Linux and Unix litigation.
[June 17, 2003, 15:40]
McBride reaches for rhetoric in Linux battle
News SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride is invoking the Founding Fathers in his company's battle over Unix intellectual property rights. In an open letter posted on the SCO Web site Thursday, McBride argues that the General Public Licence (GPL) that...
[December 8, 2003, 13:45]
SCO may have SGI in crosshairs
News SCO Group, which has sued IBM for more than $3bn (£2m) for allegedly moving Unix code into Linux, may also have Silicon Graphics in its crosshairs. SCO on Friday declined to comment on future legal action, but Chris Sontag, the senior vice...
[September 8, 2003, 9:00]
SCO buys Web services start-up
News Unix software maker SCO Group on Tuesday acquired Vultus, a start-up that has developed software for creating Web-based applications. SCO said that it will incorporate the Vultus software into SCOx, a set of tools for building Web services...
[July 22, 2003, 15:20]
The Week in Review: SCO reloads Linux attack
News This week is likely to be remembered by many companies because of SCO Group, which broadened its attempts to increase its revenues from its Unix patents by implicating Linux -- both the companies that sell it, and potentially even the companies...
[May 23, 2003, 16:26]
Legal action shuts SCO Web site
News SCO Group, the company that has warned major companies that using Linux could get them in legal trouble, has shut down its German Web site after a Linux advocacy group in the country obtained a restraining order.
[June 4, 2003, 7:34]
Did SCO open Unix code?
News Several organisations are arguing that SCO Group's shipment of a Linux product undermines its current attack on the operating system's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless.
[June 12, 2003, 8:09]
SCO says threat to Linux creator was overstated
News SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride said a published report that his company may take legal action against Linux founder Linus Torvalds was overstated. Novell, which owned Unix rights before selling at least some of them to SCO's predecessor in...
[May 30, 2003, 8:14]
