Tag archive: SCO

It's one thing to vow that you won't go down without a fight…and it's another to tilt at windmills. A Utah jury has found that Novell owns the copyrights to Unix. The ruling perhaps puts the final nail in the coffin of SCO's claims that Linux infringes on copyright it acquired from Novell…although SCO still maintains Linux includes proprietary code that would need to be licensed from SCO. “This… Read More

In what we sincerely hope will be the last chapter in SCO's long-running infringement case over Unis, U.S. Federal District Judge Dale Kimball has issued his final ruling (PDF): SCO must pay Novell over $2.54 million for unjust enrichment…plus more than $900,000 in interest and $489 for every day from August 29 until November 20, 2008. Although SCO could technically appeal the ruling to a higher court, the company is struggling… Read More

U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball has ordered (PDF) SCO to pay Novell some $2.5 million dollars to make up to royalties it collected from Sun Microsystems for licensing the Unix operating system…only, it turned out, SCO didn't own the Unix copyright, Novell did. SCO's trail of litigation over the ownership of Unix copyrights extends back several years, and involves suits against both Novell and IBM, the latter of which… Read More

Software vendor SCO has been one of the most polarizing names in the industry, following years of litigation with IBM and Novel in which it claimed to own copyright to the Unix trademark, and that source code it owned had found its way into the Linux open source operating system. Last August, Novell prevailed in the legal battle with SCO, and a month later SCO entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Now, SCO seems to have found an angel in the form… Read More

Last month, Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO does not own copyrights to Unix and Unixware, gutting SCO's long-running case against Novell and, in turn, the broader Linux software development community, which SCO claimed owed it damages for copyright infringement. SCO had largely been keeping its operations going on the prospects of a major win in court; now, in the wake of its defeat, SCO has chosen to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy… Read More

In a 102-page ruling (PDF), Judge Dale Kimball has dealt what many see as the killing blow in SCO's infamous lawsuit against Novell over copyrights to the Unix operating system, finding that Novell is the owner of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights. The ruling lifts a cloud from over the Linux and free software movements, which could have faced serious copyright and intellectual property issues if SCO had proven a claim to Unix… Read More

SCO's years-spanning lawsuit against IBM (and Novell) alleging the the companies stole code from SCO's version of Unix and inserted it into the companies' Linux efforts was dealt a harsh blow last week by Judge Brooke C. Wells of the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, who dismissed 182 of 294 claims against IBM. In her 39-page ruling (PDF, via GrokLaw), Judge Wells found that SCO failed in most instances to identify the… Read More

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… Read More

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. Read more at USA Today.

The SCO Group on Thursday acknowledged the authenticity of an e-mail sent Oct. 12 from Michael Anderer, CEO of Salt Lake City venture firm S2 Partners, to SCO Vice-president Chris Sontag and chief financial officer Robert Bench. The memo appears to be a discussion of the compensation that Mr. Anderer received for facilitating venture deals on SCO's behalf. Read more at Globe Technology.

The three licensees were named in a Feb. 4 letter to IBM from SCO's attorneys at Boies, Schiller & Flexner in connection with the companies' legal dispute over Linux and Unix. Representatives of CA, Leggett & Platt, and Questar confirmed the licenses but didn't say they agreed with SCO's assertions that Linux violates SCO's Unix intellectual property. Read the full story at CNET News.com.

With the ruling, IBM must provide 232 previously-mentioned AIX files. If SCO wants more, the company must show “how these files support its position and how they are relevant.” SCO also can't require these files for every AIX version On the other side, SCO has 45 days to comply with IBM's discovery demands that SCO identify “all specific lines of code” that SCO alleges IBM put into Linux from AIX or… Read More

The software company alleges that AutoZone “violated SCO's Unix copyrights by running versions of the Linux operating system that contain code, structure, sequence and/or organization from SCO's proprietary Unix System V code in violation of SCO's copyrights,” according to a statement from the company. Read more at CNET News.com.

“The Court, therefore, finding good cause shown hereby grants SCO Group's motion for leave to file amended pleadings,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Brooke C. Wells wrote in the ruling. (Amended pleadings refer to the legal document in which SCO has added the copyright infringement claim.) Allowing SCO to add the copyright infringement claims to the suit is expected to bump up potential damages by $2 billion for each claim, which… Read More

“This large-scale attack, caused by the MyDoom computer virus that is estimated to have infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world, is now overwhelming the Internet to requests www.sco.com,” Jeff Carlon, SCO's director of information technology, said in a statement posted on SCO's Website Sunday. However, SCO's Website www.SCO.com was unavailable later in the day on Sunday and as of this… Read More