SCO, UNIX Distributers After IBM & Others for LINUX License Violations

[DanDude]

In an attempt to pursue the deal with Micro$oft, SCO, distributors of the UNIX operating system is now threatening to sue companies who make LINUX.  IBM is being sued $1 billion for license violations.

Can you say monopoly--again?

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/05/21/microsoft.linux.ap/

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?category=main&id=11251

http://news.com.com/2009-1083_3-1009419.html

[The_Editor]

Micro$haft up to usual trix ??

If Linux gets ******  Whats left (apart from MacOS)

Maybe I.B.M. might start showing an even greater interest in "our" alternative solutions !!

 :-D  :-D

[SSSMoves]

IBM ruleZZZZ
IBM ruleZZZZ


dead to m$ let them burn   :flame:

and afterwards I drink a nice  :pint:

[bhoggett]

old news?

SCO (formerly Caldera) are desperate to be bought by someone before they go bankrupt.

Microsoft will use anyone and anything to push their "freedom of IP is evil" agenda.

That's all there is to it. Please let this story die the death it deserves, at least until the courts throw out the case.

[dammy]

First of all, there is more then one single Unix out in the wild. Second, I'm waiting for IBM to drive SCO into the dust and then pick up the remains at a firesale pricing to pay off any debts SCO may owe.  IBM is one beast that no one should pick on if they want to survive.  

Dammy

[Glaucus]

Does anyone have any clue what SCO is basing this on? I always thought Linux was pretty legit.

The only good news here is that IBM, one of the major linux supporters, has deep pockets.

  - Mike

[bhoggett]

@Glaucus

Does anyone have any clue what SCO is basing this on? I always thought Linux was pretty legit.

It is. What SCO are saying is that IBM took technology from the Unix version they licensed from SCO (a long time ago) and contributed it to Linux, therefore opening it up for copying and breaking the license conditions.

The complaint goes into a lot more detail, but basically the gist of their "proof" is that Linux would never have reached the position it is in now if IBM hadn't "stolen" SCO technology and contributed it to Linux.

Here's the OSI's position on the debate. It makes interesting reading. Some of the SCO claims are actually quite hilarious.

OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint

[JetRacer]

As I read about this event in several articles and the following comment at Slashot earlier I can say: relax. It's just bogus event similar to attemts to pathent html links.

It's more about scaring corporations to use M$ products than anything else.

[ivan1]

This is the end of the world as we know it...

Absolut Microsoft made the same with MS-DOS and Win9x,
now that they are washed up with NT Technologie,
they try to f... up the others...to bring this a bit down, for
all lawyers and Co. this are only electronic circuits with two binary states 0 and 1, not more not less, so it must be that one company steels from the other a long stream of zero´s and one´s, that´s looking like this: Bill G. downloads PC-DOS V0.99beta from IBM "-00111110010110011001111111...-"
..... nothing more to say of this #### that goes with
Computerlaws......