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SCO vs the Linux world…What's a Linux user to do?
Talkback Is there anyway for me or a group of others with similar interests in starting a suit against SCO? I have an investment in Linux and believe that I am being damaged by SCO's actions. I think that al million users or even hundreds of users might be...
[August 14, 2003, 14:54]
SCO and Linux: The legal rights and wrongs
News That's certainly the case in the current dispute that pits the SCO Group against the Linux community, says Stuart Meyer, an intellectual property partner with Fenwick & West. Assuming that SCO's claims have merit, where does the liability lie?
[September 29, 2003, 12:50]
New kid on the Linux block: SCO
News PC Unix stalwart SCO is doing the inevitable -- or the unthinkable, depending on your interpretation. SCO made investments of undisclosed amounts in one of the top four Linux distributors, Caldera Systems, and in LinuxMall.com.
[June 14, 2000, 9:03]
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 lays off staff to boost balance sheet
News The SCO Group laid off a "small" number of employees late last week as part of an effort to make its Unix products group profitable, the company said on Tuesday. Stowell said the move wasn't influenced by the urging of one of SCO's major investors...
[May 5, 2004, 9:05]
SCO reports poor results
News The SCO Group reported lacklustre second-quarter results on Thursday, with revenue falling across its three divisions and its loss from operations widening. SCO, which is embroiled in a number of lawsuits over Unix intellectual property, reported...
[June 10, 2004, 16:40]
Open-source gurus slam SCO
News Two prominent figures in the open-source realm have rejected SCO Group's argument that Linux users should pay the company licence fees for using the operating system. FSF's Moglen made a more elaborate case against SCO Group in a talk given...
[August 1, 2003, 9:10]
Computer Associates buys SCO's Linux licence
News The SCO Group confirmed on Thursday that three more companies -- Computer Associates, Leggett & Platt, and Questar -- have purchased licences for its intellectual property, allowing them to run Linux without fear of SCO legal action.
[March 5, 2004, 7:45]
SCO fined in Germany over Linux claims
News The current case found that the claims were still present in US material available on the site of SCO Group GmbH, the group's German subsidiary. SCO Group has been ordered to pay a €10,000 (£7,900) fine in Germany for making claims that Linux...
[August 21, 2008, 16:29]
SCO Linux lawsuits could hit users this year
Talkback The SCO Group has been threatening to sue In both the IBM and Red cases, the SCO Group has whined to the judges about being overwhelmed with legal paperwork to comply with discovery motions. No suits yet, but just the threats have been effective in...
[November 26, 2003, 17:21]
SCO offers reward for MyDoom author
News The controversial SCO Group has offered $250,000 (£137,298) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or group responsible for creating the MyDoom virus. The program instructs infected PCs to send data to SCO's Web server...
[January 28, 2004, 7:35]
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 fights back against 'don't pay' advice
News The SCO Group has moved to refute an Australian open-source industry group's position paper arguing companies using Linux should not respond to demands from the software company for licence payments. SCO's Australian and New Zealand boss, Kieran O...
[May 28, 2004, 9:55]
SCO Web attacks cease
News The SCO Group's Web site and file servers are back online, after being hit by a denial-of-service attack that cut off access for almost two days. The attack, which began flooding SCO's network with data early on Wednesday morning, targeted the...
[December 15, 2003, 12:15]
SCO files for Chapter 11...
Blog PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. The Board of Directors of The SCO Group have unanimously determined that Chapter 11 reorganization is in the best long-term interest of SCO and its subsidiaries, as well as its customers, shareholders...
[September 14, 2007, 20:57]
SCO seeks to halt IBM's Unix
News SCO Group on Monday said it revoked IBM's licence to sell its version of Unix, called AIX, and requested that a judge permanently block IBM's Unix business. Though those licences lay largely dormant for years, SCO decided that they could be a...
[June 17, 2003, 7:40]
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]
SCO allowed to delay IBM trial
News The SCO Group won two and lost two in its Unix-related lawsuits against IBM and Novell, with a federal judge issuing rulings that, among other things, granted SCO's request to delay the IBM trial. SCO also sued AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler for...
[June 14, 2004, 8:45]
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]
Spreading virus takes aim at SCO
News A mass-mailing virus quickly spread through the Internet on Monday, compromising computers so that they will attack the SCO Group's Web server with a flood of data on 1 February, according to antivirus companies.
[January 27, 2004, 8:30]
