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  • SCO wanted to gag Torvalds

    Unix company was gathering information to support a court order to silence individuals related to its open-source legal case against IBM.

  • Judge whittles down SCO claims against IBM

    A Utah judge has thrown out hundreds of claims made by SCO Group in its Linux lawsuit against IBM, finding that SCO failed to specify many of Big Blue's alleged misdeeds.

  • IBM issues subpoenas for tech giants' SCO dealings

    The long-running legal battle over claims that IBM's version of Linux violates SCO Group's intellectual property took another twist on Tuesday when IBM sent subpoenas to four other tech players.

  • IBM drops patent claims against SCO

    IBM has dropped its three remaining claims of patent infringement in a lawsuit against the SCO Group, which originally sued Big Blue in March 2003 over claims it broke a Unix licensing contract by moving technology to Linux.

  • Open source gurus issue patent warning

    Several open source luminaries have issued a warning over the implications of software patents, and the possibility of Microsoft unleashing 'patent WMDs' when it realises its business model is no longer viable.

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  • Microsoft-SCO: Fact and fiction

    Is Microsoft funding the SCO Group's legal fight against Linux? ZDNet hopes to shed some light and answer common questions swirling around the duo's relationship.

  • SCO vs the Linux world...What's a Linux user to do?

    Commentary: SCO's lawsuit against IBM has sparked controversy in the open-source world - here are some things for Linux users to consider.

  • Who's liable for Linux?

    It's the next big Linux controversy: Who should be liable if customers wind up using software that was created from misappropriated intellectual property?

  • 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.

  • 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.

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Reviews (2)

  • SCO vs the Linux world...What's a Linux user to do?

    Commentary: SCO's lawsuit against IBM has sparked controversy in the open-source world - here are some things for Linux users to consider.

  • 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.

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