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  • 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.

  • UNIX group wants money to take on OOXML

    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 rules out further court cases

    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 unfazed by SCO Unix threat

    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.

  • Court orders SCO to show more code

    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.

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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.

  • SCO Group exits Nasdaq

    The Nasdaq market has delisted The SCO Group, the Linux-seller-turned-Linux-litigant now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

  • AutoZone wants SCO case put on hold

    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.

  • Who really owns Unix?

    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.

  • 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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