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Unix copyrights emerge from shadows
News The SCO Group and Novell began publicly airing documents related to their dispute over Unix copyrights, which are important factors in SCO's claim to intellectual property rights for the Linux operating system.
[January 14, 2004, 8:55]
Unix copyrights emerge from shadows
Talkback SCO tells Novell that SCO owns the copyrights, but won't tell IBM. In its press releases and letters to its customers, SCO claims that violations of its copyrights are in the Linux kernel. If, as Stowell said, SCO did not specify any copyrights...
[January 20, 2004, 14:16]
Contract amendment 'gives SCO Unix copyrights'
News SCO Group on Thursday discovered a 1996 amendment to the contract under which Novell sold many of its Unix assets, and the amendment appears to give SCO at least some of the Unix copyrights that could bolster its potential legal claims against...
[June 6, 2003, 9:04]
Unix copyrights emerge from shadows
Talkback A report in the press is hardly a reliable piece of evidence given that, these days, one can hardly discern the truth of anything from the press and media. I hope SCO get a really bad headache from their behaviour, not only because they are wrong...
[January 15, 2004, 11:51]
Contract arguments reanimate SCO dispute
News In the latest step in a legal battle over Unix copyrights, Novell has filed a countersuit against the SCO Group, charging it with twice breaking a contract. The software company also accused SCO with slander of title for claiming ownership of the...
[August 1, 2005, 9:30]
Unix contract sheds light on Novell-SCO dispute
News A 1995 contract sheds light on the conflicting Unix ownership claims by Novell and SCO Group, with SCO receiving broad rights to the operating system but Novell retaining copyrights and patents. Novell maintains that the agreement specifically...
[June 5, 2003, 7:28]
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]
Novell challenges SCO's Linux claims
News In a letter to SCO released on Wednesday, Novell asserted that it retains Unix patents and copyrights, demanded that SCO reveal where Unix source code has been copied into Linux and raised its own threat of legal action to compensate for damage it...
[May 28, 2003, 7:48]
SCO reveals Linux legal targets
News The software company alleges that AutoZone "violated SCO's Unix copyrights by running versions of the Linux operating system that contain code, structure, sequence and/or organisation from SCO's proprietary Unix System V code in violation of SCO's...
[March 3, 2004, 13:50]
SCO dodges knockout blow
News IBM in 2004 sought a declaration through that its Linux activities hadn't violated SCO's purported Unix copyrights, as SCO had claimed publicly and in its lawsuit. Viewed against the backdrop of SCO's plethora of public statements concerning IBM's...
[February 10, 2005, 8:05]
Investor wants to pull out of SCO
News BayStar Capital is seeking to get back the $20m (£11.05m) it invested in the SCO Group, raising issues for SCO's expensive and controversial legal campaign that argues that Linux infringes its Unix copyrights.
[April 19, 2004, 12:20]
SCOing down
Leader Judge Kimball has ruled that SCO does not own the copyrights to Unix and UnixWare — at a stroke disembowelling SCO's claims that it has been damaged by infringements to those copyrights and associated licences.
[August 15, 2007, 17:05]
One up for SCO in Novell slander case
News SCO and Novell are embroiled in a fight over the ownership of copyrights to Unix and Unixware. SCO claims ownership through a complicated series of mergers and acquisitions in the 1990s, but Novell denies that it sold the copyrights to Unix and...
[June 30, 2005, 14:45]
SCO opens new legal front against Novell
News The suit, filed in Utah's Third District Court in Salt Lake City, accuses Novell of slander and seeks an order that would require Novell to assign to SCO all Unix-related copyrights and to withdraw any statements claiming ownership of Unix.
[January 21, 2004, 9:10]
SCO refreshes Unix line-up
News SCO claims, among other things, that it owns the Unix copyrights, that Linux infringes those copyrights, and that IBM violated its Unix contract with SCO by moving Unix technology to Linux. The SCO Group unveiled a handful of new Unix products on...
[June 16, 2004, 9:10]
AutoZone asks for stay on SCO case
News SCO sued AutoZone in March, arguing that the auto-parts retailer infringed on SCO Unix copyrights through its use of Linux. And in January, SCO filed suit against Novell, an earlier owner of Unix intellectual property, in an effort establish...
[April 28, 2004, 8:30]
Another Linux firm indemnifies against SCO
News SCO alleges that IBM improperly moved Unix intellectual property into Linux and, independently, that Linux infringes the company's Unix copyrights. In response to the SCO Group's legal action against Linux, Red Hat is offering new legal protection...
[January 20, 2004, 7:45]
Open-source gurus slam SCO
News SCO, owner of Unix copyrights and the company that licensed the operating system to Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and others, argues that Unix intellectual property has tainted Linux in three ways.
[August 1, 2003, 9:10]
SCO: We'll see Novell in court
News Novell entered the fray last week, claiming that SCO's case is invalid, because Novell still holds key Unix copyrights and patents. To Novell's knowledge, the 1995 agreement governing SCO's purchase of Unix from Novell does not convey to SCO the...
[June 2, 2003, 9:12]
Red Hat sues SCO over Linux
News The action is the most serious attempt so far to seize some of the initiative from SCO, owner of key Unix copyrights, in its legal actions against Linux. The seven-count suit seeks, among other things, a declaratory judgment that Red Hat has not...
[August 5, 2003, 9:00]
