[plug] [link] SCO sues IBM over Linux contributions

[Derek Fountain]

On Friday 07 March 2003 14:17, Ben Jensz wrote:
> SCO to sue IBM over Unix-like contributions to Linux:
>
>     * SCO Group, inheritor of the intellectual property for the Unix
>     operating system, has sued IBM for more than $1 billion, alleging
>     Big Blue misappropriated SCO's Unix technology and built it into Linux.
>
>     *
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1016-991464.html

The Bloomberg report of this story contains this rather bewildering quote:

"Caldera's business has been hurt by the free Linux software that IBM has been 
supporting"

And there we were thinking Caldera (which is the name the law suit is filed 
under) were a Linux company.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Technology%20News&T=markets_box.ht&middle=ad_frame2_all&s=APmfr7BXW

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...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, 
they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003