The SCO Group, committed to an expensive legal attack against Linux, said Tuesday it has removed some financial uncertainty from its future by working out an agreement to cap payments to its law firm.
Novell expects this week to begin offering SuSE Linux customers some legal protection for using the open-source operating system, the fourth legal umbrella to emerge from a computing industry grappling with legal threats brought by SCO Group.
AutoPatcher, a four-year-old project to distribute Microsoft patches and other updates to software that runs on Windows, has shut down because of a Microsoft request.
SCO Group, the company that has warned major companies that using Linux could get them in legal trouble, has shut down its German Web site after a Linux advocacy group in the country obtained a restraining order.
An agreement with SCO Group protects Linux seller SuSE from legal action stemming from SCO's accusation that Unix software was copied into Linux, SuSE said.
Open Source Risk Management plans on Monday in the US to begin selling Linux users protection against copyright infringement claims such as those levied by the SCO Group.
Sun Microsystems is grappling with applying an open-source philosophy to its Java software as the company weighs risks and benefits over whether it should jump in further or not. But some experts are suggesting a middle ground.
SCO Group has backed off a plan to send invoices to prod corporate users into buying licenses to use Linux, an operating system the company argues violates its Unix intellectual property.
Several organisations argue that SCO's shipment of a Linux product undermines its current attack on the operating system's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless.
Sun Microsystems signs a deal to incorporate SuSE's version of the Linux operating system in its servers, the company's second step in moving beyond its own version of Linux.
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