SCO Drops Potential Bombshell In IBM Case

The legal battle between IBM and the SCO Group took a new turn this week when SCO announced that they have discoverd IBM lacks proper licensing for its AIX operating system.

SCO’s latest claim centers around a partnership between its predecessor company, Santa Cruz Operation, and IBM in 1998. In that partnership, IBM was given the rights to use the code from Santa Cruz Operation’s Unix-based operating system called System V Release 4 (SRV4) but only on Intel processors.

SCO says that when the partnership ended, IBM continued to use SRV4, and even implemented it into its AIX operating system for its Power PC processors. SCO says they have documents including internal IBM e-mails confirming that IBM knew it lacked the proper licensing.

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