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  • Compuware asks court to punish IBM

    Software maker Compuware has charged IBM with keeping back key evidence in a long-running legal battle over copyright and anticompetitive practices

  • IBM fighting ATO on $55m tax bill

    IBM has filed a case in the Federal Court against the Australian Commissioner of Taxation, disputing a $55 million tax bill it has received on royalties paid by its Australian subsidiary.

  • Judge whittles down SCO claims against IBM

    A Utah judge has thrown out hundreds of claims made by SCO Group in its Linux lawsuit against IBM, finding that SCO failed to specify many of Big Blue's alleged misdeeds.

  • SCO e-mail: No 'smoking gun' in Linux code

    A 2002 e-mail suggests that an investigation commissioned by The SCO Group failed to produce any evidence that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code.

  • IBM asks for quick rejection of SCO claims

    IBM has asked the court presiding over its Linux dispute with the SCO Group to issue a prompt ruling that Big Blue did not infringe on SCO's copyrights.

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  • 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.

  • How dirty is Victoria Police's laundry?

    When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.

  • Security vendor survey: Will they side with the government?

    Security software vendors may soon side with US government authorities and intentionally fail to report "certain spyware" to customers if ordered by a court to remain quiet, according to a survey of leading firms.

  • IBM beckons Linux fans to server line

    In an effort to increase the number of programs available for its iSeries servers, Big Blue is courting Linux programmers by letting them tap into an iSeries server over the Net.

  • Commentary: Unix's war on Linux

    The lawsuit filed against IBM by SCO is a stalking-horse for a deeper struggle between proprietary and open-source software.

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