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• Novell: SCO insolvency 'imminent, inevitable'

  Novell has claimed that The SCO Group, the licensing and consulting firm conducting various legal campaigns over the Linux operating system, is about to go bankrupt.

• Ex-MyGrocer manager fined after ASIC investigation

  Former manager of MyGrocer, Ross Whitehead, has been fined AU$6,000 by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after being found guilty of assisting in the management of two companies while an undischarged bankrupt.

• Apple in court dispute over Unix

  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.

• Worldcom pays US$500 million fine

  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.

• Web services patents fetch US$15.5 million

  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.

Features and Case Studies (5)

• Apple in court dispute over Unix

  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.

• The open source patent conundrum

  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.

• The ICT labour market: Where agendas collide

  Companies want cheap labour, universities depend on international student dollars, industry needs key skills, and local graduates just want a job. Mark Wheeler investigates the drama playing out over the ICT labour market.

• Could Sun hold a key to SCO's future?

  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?

• You can't hide in a digital office

  The average paper shredder does nothing to alter the computers where the vast majority of those paper documents originated.

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