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.
A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can continue its fight against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format.
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.
IBM has dismissed as idle an SCO Group threat to cancel Big Blue's license to ship Unix products starting 13 June, saying that its contracts guarantee rights to the operating system.
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.
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 Nasdaq market has delisted The SCO Group, the Linux-seller-turned-Linux-litigant now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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.
Allen Brown, CEO of The Open Group, explains that his organisation owns the Unix trademark and that SCO Group holds the rights only to the OS source code.
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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Sun plans to bundle its application server software into Solaris, a move that could shake the industry.
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The growing popularity of Linux will force Microsoft to bring its software to the Unix clone starting in late 2004, a research firm has predicted in a study that Microsoft promptly disputed.
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