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SCO receives funding to pursue Linux litigation
News Private-equity firm Stephen Norris & Co Capital Partners said on Thursday that it and unnamed Middle Eastern partners will fund SCO Group with up to $100m to take over the financially beleaguered Unix company, move it out of bankruptcy protection...
[February 15, 2008, 9:20]
SCO was the 'best thing that ever happened' to Linux
News Cohen, who heads the organisation that employs Linus Torvalds and lead kernel maintainer Andrew Morton, said that although the litigation is "nearly dead now", its legacy is the due diligence that was done around the world on the Linux code base.
[March 10, 2005, 9:45]
SCO suit fails to deter Linux plans
News The survey, published on Monday, found that 84 percent of CIOs with Linux installation plans had not re-evaluated their plans in response to the SCO litigation. A major question facing companies selling Linux products has been whether the...
[October 15, 2003, 8:50]
SCO wanted to gag Torvalds
News In the letter, dated 11 February, 2004, SCO attorney Kevin McBride requested information regarding individuals and organisations SCO had been "told" were being funded by IBM, as SCO was "concerned" about statements regarding its litigation by...
[April 30, 2007, 14:38]
SCO Linux lawsuits could hit users this year
News It will most likely happen prior to the end of this calendar year," said Blepp, referring to litigation from SCO. HP has said it will indemnify its Linux customers against litigation from SCO, and Sun chief executive Scott McNealy has said its...
[November 26, 2003, 10:30]
Judge prevents SCO selling off assets
News SCO, which has been in bankruptcy court since 2007, had proposed to sell off most of its Unix business assets to a company called Unxis, the latest in a series of proposals aimed at allowing the company to exit bankruptcy and continue its high...
[August 6, 2009, 15:33]
SCO dangles Linux-licence carrot
News SCO Group, a company that says Linux infringes on its Unix intellectual property, announced on Monday that it has been granted key Unix copyrights and will start a programme to let companies that run Linux avoid litigation by paying licensing fees.
[July 22, 2003, 7:51]
SCO Linux lawsuits could hit users this year
Talkback Businesses live by serving the public, and any business model that's based on SUING the public is going to bring disaster.regardless of the outcome of the litigation. SCO is doomed. Right or wrong, win or lose, suing the public is going to bring...
[November 28, 2003, 15:36]
Computer Associates buys SCO's Linux licence
News The lawsuits, as well as other litigation, have sent shock waves around the computing industry, which has eagerly embraced the open-source operating system. And it's backing up its demands with legal action: this week the company began suing users...
[March 5, 2004, 7:45]
Is Psystar the new SCO?
Blog This raises the question of Psystars's motives, being a relatively small company and, indeed, how they are managing to finance all this litigation, and whether, like SCO, this is really an attack on the GPL licence masquerading as a contrived...
[October 22, 2009, 17:39]
SCO reports further financial gloom
News In regard to the SCOsource effort to make money through this licensing and litigation, revenue declined from $10.3m a year ago to $120,000 in the most recent quarter, SCO said. It's also engaged in related litigation with Linux user AutoZone, Unix...
[December 22, 2004, 7:45]
Novell boosts legal team with litigation expert
News Eric Acker, head of litigation for the San Diego office of global law firm Morrison & Foerster, has a formidable history, including 45 jury trials as a federal prosecutor. His firm is a global expert in litigation, concentrating on a number of...
[August 6, 2007, 13:16]
Red Hat has 'no grounds' for lawsuit, says SCO
News Any governmental interest served under the Lanham Act (one of the foundations of US intellectual property law) is heavily outweighed by fundamental governmental interests in protecting copyright interests, ensuring full and free access to courts...
[September 16, 2003, 9:00]
IBM adds voice to patent reform calls
News The ongoing SCO litigation, based on allegations that Big Blue misappropriated SCO's Unix technology and built it into Linux, has highlighted these problems . IBM is looking to protect itself from litigation in future by laying down guidelines that...
[April 11, 2005, 17:00]
Legal action shuts SCO Web site
News SCO previously hired outside attorneys to serve as its chief legal counsel, but about 10 days ago hired Tibbitts, who has experience in litigation. The Canopy Group said SCO has got to hire somebody in-house to manage the IBM litigation," Tibbitts...
[June 4, 2003, 7:34]
Microsoft will not sue over Linux patents
News Senior analysts said that while the threat of patent litigation might have caused a furore in the open-source community, actual litigation could cause damage to Microsoft similar to the damage suffered by SCO.
[May 21, 2007, 11:16]
SCO's financial situation worsens
News It recently launched a new version of its SCO office Server and began working on mobile services, but in recent years the company has been known primarily for its litigation. The financial situation at SCO, the Unix vendor which claims that Linux...
[January 18, 2007, 16:19]
SCO sets steep charge for Linux licence
News Red Hat declined to comment, citing pending litigation. Software maker SCO Group fired back at Linux leader Red Hat on Tuesday and revealed steep licensing prices for Linux users who want to steer clear of the company's legal wrangle with the open...
[August 6, 2003, 9:10]
SCO loses key case
News Over the last two years, SCO has managed to waste an incredible amount of goodwill and reputation over its increasingly specious-seeming litigation," Ferrell said. The more that SCO is unsuccessful in its claims, the more it decreases their ability...
[July 22, 2004, 8:35]
SCO fights back against 'don't pay' advice
News However, the legal status of SCO's claims remains unclear, with IBM recently asking the US court presiding over the SCO litigation to issue a prompt ruling that Big Blue had not infringed on SCO's copyrights.
[May 28, 2004, 9:55]
