IBM has asked a federal magistrate to throw out claims of copyright infringement by SCO Group in the battle over source code for the Linux operating system.
The request came in an amended counterclaim filed last week striking back at SCO claims that IBM gave proprietary Unix code to Linux developers.
Twice in a 47-page filing IBM asked federal magistrate Brooke Wells to issue a declaratory judgment absolving it of SCO accusations and calling off a trial set for April 11, 2005.
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