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  • SCO opens new front in Linux war

    SCO Group has targeted a new group in an effort to profit from what it says is illegal use of Unix intellectual property in Linux, but Novell, a former owner of the operating system, claims it still holds copyrights.

  • Linux war of words escalates

    Open-source software leaders Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens fired back at the SCO Group, disputing the company's latest swipe at Linux and the open-source development method.

  • Linux Wars: Big Blue strikes back

    IBM has launched a counterstrike against SCO Group's attack on Linux users, arguing that SCO's demands for Unix license payments are undermined by its earlier shipment of an open-source Linux product.

  • SCO's Linux wars heat up as AU claims 'vilification'

    The brawl between the SCO Group and critics of its intellectual property claims on the Linux open source software is heating up, both in Australia and overseas.

  • 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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  • 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.

  • The FUD war against Linux

    Open-source activist Bruce Perens uncovers the SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince users that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux.

  • Microsoft and Novell's bridge to Linux

    The longtime rivals make nice with a plan to help businesses use the open-source operating system along with Windows. Red Hat, meanwhile, moved quickly to pour cold water on the partnership.

  • Cyberpeace -- of sorts -- in our time

    Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Novell's Ron Hovsepian make an unlikely pair, and their pact has caught the tech industry by surprise.

  • Is the FOSS community divided?

    One Linux Australia past president thinks so. In other Linux.conf.au coverage, a leading IT lawyer claims that an expensive and ineffective patent regime is hampering the work of Australia's software community.

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Reviews (30)

  • 'Star Wars' force switches to Intel

    Industrial Light and Magic has joined the empire, at least in terms of hardware.

  • A lesson in logic

    Fundamentalists are people who can't tolerate the idea that there are legitimate points of view other than their own. Publish something negative about Linux, and you'll soon find out what I mean.

  • New boots for Linux

    Almost by stealth, the Linux desktop is here -- and at last it knows how to make itself at home.

  • It's a Matrix moment for Linux

    We are finding out that the brains of Linux programmers have been floating in tanks, feeding the parasitic robots (lawyers) who are calling the shots at financially strapped SCO. Now it's time to harvest those brains.

  • Time for Microsoft Linux?

    Commentary: Last week, Steve Ballmer sent a memo to the MS troops about the threat posed by Linux and the open source software movement. I have a suggestion for Steve and Co.: Don't beat 'em. Join 'em.

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