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Time For SCO to Go On Record
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posted by mpawlo
on Sunday December 07, @06:22AM
from the showdown-at-high-noon dept.
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A judge has ordered SCO to present the Linux software to which it believes it has rights and to point out where it believes IBM is infringing, within 30 days.
On March 6, 2003, the SCO Group Inc. ("SCO") filed a civil lawsuit against IBM in Utah State Court. SCO claims to have rights violated by the code used in the Linux kernel, and that IBM, by its support and development of Linux has breached a contract IBM has entered into with SCO regarding non-disclosure of Unix code. SCO claims Unix code have been used in Linux by non-lawful disclosure of Unix code by IBM. SCO has yet to disclose the code in question to the public. Linux creator Linus Torvalds is skeptical towards SCO's claims, as are Novell and IBM, and Linux distributors Red Hat and SuSE. Microsoft has entered into a license agreement with SCO "to respect SCO's intellectual property". Some analysts regard this as a move to provide SCO with funds to survice the IBM litigation, as SCO is in dire straits financially. As Microsoft identifies Linux as a major challenge, this is also seen as an opportunity to sow concerns over the legal status of Linux. Some analysts regard the SCO lawsuit as a move to force IBM or another big player to acquire SCO to ensure (or stop) the development of Linux.
Read more in Cnet News.com.
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Anonymous Coward
on Sunday December 07, @02:25PM (#1385)
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Sunday December 07, @06:42PM (#1387)
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If you're not in the know about sco (sorry for lower case, but a lame lameness filter thinks three upper case letters in an acronym is "yelling"), Groklaw [groklaw.net] is the place to go.
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