A judge on Wednesday ordered both the SCO Group and IBM to reveal more information in their legal tangle over Linux and Unix, including the code SCO believes infringes on its intellectual property.
SCO, the US software vendor that has angered most of the open-source community with its claim that its proprietary Unix source code has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel, won't be launching any more lawsuits in the foreseeable future, according to chief executive Darl McBride.
A favourable outcome from planned litigation in the US by the SCO Group against large corporate users of Linux who decline to pay the vendor for allegedly exploiting its intellectual property could reduce the likelihood of similar litigation here, SCO's Australian boss has hinted.
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.
In the latest step in a legal battle over Unix copyrights, Novell has filed a countersuit against the SCO Group, charging it with twice breaking a contract.
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.
AutoZone has asked a court to put a hold on the SCO Group's Linux lawsuit against it--a case that could have repercussions for any company using the open-source operating system.
SCO's strategy for its lawsuit against IBM could destroy the legal foundation of Linux and related software.
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