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"Their examples are bogus." Lindon, Utah-based SCO sued IBM in March, claiming Big Blue illegally inserted SCO's Unix code into Linux.
At SCOForum 2003 last month, The SCO Group presented its first specific example of the Unix code that has allegedly found its way into Linux. The sample occupied only a couple of slides in a much ...
SALT LAKE CITY—Last August, the nail was poised over SCO's coffin when Judge Dale Kimball ruled that Novell never relinquished the copyrights to UNIX, but nobody really knew when it would be driven ...
An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...
A Princeton professor, finding a little time for himself in the summer academic lull, emailed an old friend a couple months ago. Brian Kernighan said hello, asked how their friend's US visit was going ...
As it lays the groundwork for a potential copyright infringement case against Linux, The SCO Group has sent cease-and-desist letters to select Fortune 1000 companies charging them with illegally ...
The examples showed code from Unix and Linux that appeared to be identical or similar. SCO alleges that millions of lines of its System V Unix code were illegally put into Linux, and it used the ...
Judge orders IBM to reveal Unix code A judge orders Big Blue to show all versions of its two Unix products, AIX and Dynix, to the SCO Group.
SCO says proprietary source code underlying Unix has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. SCO critics argue that because the company shipped a Linux product under an open-source license ...
An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code ...