Novell has claimed that The SCO Group, the licensing and consulting firm conducting various legal campaigns over the Linux operating system, is about to go bankrupt.
A 1995 contract sheds light on the conflicting Unix ownership claims by Novell and SCO Group, with SCO receiving broad rights to the operating system but Novell retaining copyrights and patents.
Novell has denied claims by SCO Group that its planned acquisition of SuSE Linux violates an 8-year-old noncompete agreement.
SCO Group executives said Friday that the company's copyright dispute with Novell doesn't affect its legal campaign against Linux, but the issue may result in a lawsuit, anyway.
In the latest step in a legal battle over Unix copyrights, Novell has filed a countersuit against the SCO Group, charging it with twice breaking a contract.
video Novell's Chris Stone scoffs at the SCO Group's legal battle against Novell and other Linux users over Unix copyright claims.
In an interview with ZDNet Australia, a senior Red Hat executive talks about the threat of Novell, the company's expansion plans in Asia-Pacific, and life after Torvalds.
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.
The lawsuit filed against IBM by SCO is a stalking-horse for a deeper struggle between proprietary and open-source software.
The programmer in charge of the current version of the heart of Linux plans to curtail the adding of new features in order to encourage a move to the upcoming kernel, a decision that's irked some.
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