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As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the Unix operating system, another dispute has been quietly simmering over the rights to the Unix name itself.
The company formerly known as WorldCom took another step toward corporate normalcy with the filing of a US$500 million settlement proposal hammered out with the feds.
A mysterious bidder paid US$15.5 million Monday in the US in a bankruptcy court auction of dozens of Internet-related patents--and then rushed out of the courtroom.
As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the operating system, the company that claims ownership of the Unix name says Apple is infringing its trademark.
Although Sun Microsystems recently made software patents available for use by open-source developers, OSI founder Bruce Perens cautions that the patent picture is turning increasingly murky.
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As SCO forges ahead with a take no prisoners approach, its most fervent opponents are salivating at the prospect that a sealed 1992 settlement between the University of California, Berkeley, and Novell could disprove SCO claims to the Unix code. Imagine if Sun were holding a similar document in its files?
The average paper shredder does nothing to alter the computers where the vast majority of those paper documents originated.
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