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More on SCO's War on Linux







More on SCO's War on Linux

More on SCO's War on Linux 06/23/2004 03:52 PM

  • Brad Stone (Wired): The Linux Killer. If SCO loses, the company is likely toast. But winning will be a tall order. SCO must show that the old, murky contracts between AT&T (which developed Unix), Novell (which bought the operating system from AT&T in 1993), and the old Santa Cruz Operation deliberately transferred the Unix copyrights to the new SCO Group; it also must show that it owns the rights to derivative flavors of Unix, like IBM's AIX. Finally, and perhaps most difficult, SCO must prove IBM and other Linux programmers around the world got sloppy and ported proprietary code into Linux. Legal experts tracking the case think each hurdle - let alone all three - is difficult to clear. The odds are clearly against SCO.



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