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SCO cancels Sequent's Unix licence
News The SCO Group on Wednesday terminated its Unix System V software contract with IBM subsidiary Sequent, potentially curtailing the company's ability to market its Unix-based Dynix/ptx operating system.
[August 13, 2003, 16:25]
Contract arguments reanimate SCO dispute
News SCO's first contract violation lies in its failure to comply with requirements to supply Novell with information about licensing activities regarding versions of Unix System V, Novell argues. The second violation arises from a provision in the...
[August 1, 2005, 9:30]
SCO issues warning to open-source vigilantes
News McBride said comments from open-source leader Bruce Perens verify that code derived from SCO's System V version of Unix were incorporated into Linux software distributed by SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics).
[September 9, 2003, 9:20]
IBM acts to throw out SCO's Linux claims
News Davis "concluded that such code does not contain any portion of source code from Unix System V and is not substantially similar to any source code in Unix System V," according to the motion. The motion for partial summary judgment, filed on Friday...
[August 17, 2004, 9:00]
SCO adds to IBM ammunition
News One is user level synchronisation (ULS), used for coordinating separate instruction sequences; another is the Executable and Linking Format (ELF), the standard that defines the structure of programs that a computer can run; a third is the System V...
[July 16, 2004, 14:40]
IBM server takes aim at Intel's patch
News Fujitsu sells systems using its own Sparc V processor, which runs Sun's Solaris version of Unix. IBM has brought its Power4+ processor to the low end of its Unix server line, making the new chip an option across the company's entire line a year and...
[May 28, 2003, 9:11]
Sun to push UltraSparc V past 3GHz
News But Sun's servers remain on top of the Unix server market, ample amounts of high-end software is written for them, and the company's profit margins are edging up as the retirement of most older UltraSparc II servers simplifies manufacturing and...
[June 25, 2002, 9:37]
Microsoft's Hyper-V: why all the fuss? review
Reviews To begin with, the latter all tend to be based on Linux/Unix code, whereas Microsoft's hypervisor (originally codenamed Viridian before being rechristened) is tightly bound up with its new server operating system, Windows Server 2008.
[February 27, 2008, 9:14]
Patent directive 'could halt Linux development'
Talkback Malcom ought to read some of the current US court documents coming out of the SCO vs IBM case, in which the presiding judge says that SCO has thus far shown _no_ evidence of any code taken from Unix or System V has ended up in the Linux kernel.
[March 1, 2005, 20:29]
SCO wants $5bn from IBM
Talkback SCO claims that IBM has been violating SCO's copyrights ever since SCO supposedly terminated IBM's UNIX license. But the only copyrights that SCO has claim to are in Unixware and System V, and SCO has now admitted that there is no System V code in...
[February 9, 2004, 8:09]
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 sets up Linux-licence shop
News It enables companies that use Linux to purchase a licence that covers SCO's Unix System V, portions of which SCO claims were illegally incorporated into the source code of Linux. SCO rattled the technology world last year when it sued IBM, claiming...
[February 24, 2004, 7:20]
SCO to attack validity of Linux licence
News SCO, owner of several key copyrights related to the Unix operating system, has been aggressively defending its intellectual property holdings connected to Unix System V, and filed a $3bn (£1.87bn) lawsuit against IBM earlier this year.
[August 15, 2003, 14:50]
Novell: SCO insolvency 'imminent' and 'inevitable'
News The deal also stated that SCO would hand over 95 percent of all revenue it received from SVRX [Unix System V Release any] licence agreements. In a court filing, reported this week by legal website Groklaw, Novell claimed that SCO should pay it...
[January 11, 2007, 13:41]
Sun emerges from shadows holding SCO licence
News Sun's expanded licence permits Sun to use some software from Unix System V Release 4 for software components called drivers, which let computers use hard drives, network cards and other devices. The pact, signed earlier this year, expanded the...
[July 11, 2003, 8:05]
SGI draws SCO's wrath
News The letter purports to terminate our Unix System V license effective 14 October, 2003. High-end computer maker Silicon Graphics is in line to become the next target of Linux opponent SCO Group, with the controversial software seller threatening to...
[October 2, 2003, 9:25]
SCO opens new legal front against Novell
News Novell has said the US Copyright Office granted the company copyright registrations for 11 versions of System V Unix, giving Novell a substantial ownership position. Linux adversary the SCO Group sued rival software maker Novell on Tuesday...
[January 21, 2004, 9:10]
SCO 'must show more code' - judge
News In addition, she told SCO to identify the lines of code in Unix System V that were used by IBM to create derivative works in AIX and Dynix, which were transferred to Linux. A judge on Wednesday ordered both the SCO Group and IBM to reveal more...
[March 4, 2004, 7:15]
Will Unix roots help Apple grow?
News In the early 1990s, the company sold A/UX, a version of Unix System V, designed to run on Apple's Macs and servers as an alternative to the Mac OS. Unix developers' interest in Mac OS X is simple: It is the first desktop Unix-based operating system...
[May 22, 2001, 9:00]
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
Talkback wait why would people run osx.o yea you want high end video editing.wait windows can do high end video editing.o ok high end audio editing.wait windows can do high end audio editing.o ok high end graphic editing.wait windows can do high end...
[September 28, 2006, 17:10]
