Troubled software maker SCO's chief executive has claimed the Linux operating system includes Unix source code, during a court case in which Novell is suing SCO for royalties on Unix.
Gathered at the Legal Futures Conference at California's Stanford University over the weekend, online legal experts have again raised their concerns that the rise and rise of Web 2.0 has come at the expense of individual privacy.
The Linux Foundation, custodians of the Linux trademark, have announced two legal summits to deal with legal issues surrounding Linux and open-source software.
The SCO Group's revenue continued to decline in its most recent quarter, but the company that launched a legal attack on Linux reported a narrower net loss compared with the year earlier.
Microsoft has a new sales pitch for Linux users: Buy our software and stay out of court.
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Cheap shot or brilliant tactical move? Whichever the case, one can't help but question the timing of the SCO Group's latest legal wrangle.
In a new twist to the SCO Group's labyrinthine plot, the company now says it will invoice customers running or developing applications using Linux. Is this just a clumsy execution of an 11th hour plan or perhaps a smokescreen for a hidden agenda?
CEO Stuart Cohen talks about OSDL's efforts to head off patent claims against the community-developed operating system.
IBM's newest ThinkPad is no ordinary notebook. In fact, the new ThinkPad TransNote represents perhaps the greatest departure from standard notebook design since computers first took to the road.
Nanotechnology is constantly finding itself in the headlines. But are microscopic machines an inevitable part of our future, or just another hype-heavy get-rich-quick ruse?
As Microsoft gets ready to unveil Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, hardware manufacturers are readying tablet products for release.
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The latest lawsuit against Intel could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and eventually have an impact on every PC maker that uses Pentium processors.
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