Operating Systems
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- HP Shells out for SCO Road Show
- Main item of note for tour is premier sponsor: HP. Last week, HP jumped ahead of IBM and Dell to say it will protect users from SCO if they face court battle over Linux use, if they agree to use unmodified Linux versions. [The Register] (September 29, 2003)
- 2182
- HP Offers Linux Users SCO Protection
- Will protect its Linux customers, defending them in court at HP's cost, will indemnify users buying servers, workstations if they are sued by SCO. HP is first major sever vendor to protect customer base on serious hardware. [The Register] (September 24, 2003)
- 2183
- Lindows.com Claims SCO Immunity via Caldera Deal
- Firm jumps into SCO legal maelstrom by claiming immunity from it; announcement cites 2001 business agreement with Caldera giving Lindows.com technology for product initiatives in return for considerations. [The Register] (May 30, 2003)
- 2184
- SCO Pulps Caldera-MS Trial Archives
- AP reports the 937 boxes of court-ordered documents from the Caldera vs. Microsoft DR-DOS antitrust lawsuit, that were stored since the trial, are being destroyed now by request of SCO; 40 boxes are in use by Sun. [The Register] (May 22, 2003)
- 2185
- MS Blesses SCO, Licenses Unix
- Licensing Unix code from litigious SCO does little to allay fears that SCO is but a beard for Redmond. Microsoft was instrumental in SCO early growth, by selling Xenix. [The Register] (May 19, 2003)
- 2186
- The Novell Letters
- Text of Exhibits K and L from IBM amended agreements with AT&T for Unix. They are referenced in digital documents but not seen on websites, because they are paper documents filed with court, not in the digital records. [Groklaw] (August 08, 2003)
- 2187
- SCO's Second Amendment Rebuffs Novell Unix Claim
- Army of paper shufflers working at SCO manages to unearth 1996 amendment potent enough to block some Novell Unix claims. SCO says amendment confirms Unix copyrights were safely secured. [The Register] (June 06, 2003)
- 2188
- Analysis: Novell Tries to Torpedo SCO Unix IP Claims
- Novell upstages SCO earnings report. Another chapter in long ongoing saga between the 2 firms; how SCO and Novell came to be at odds over Linux; industry analysts give views on SCO v. Linux. [LinuxPlanet] (May 28, 2003)
- 2189
- A Couple of SCO Amusements
- SCO claims to own Unix, but their annual report says SCO acts as administrative agent for Novell in collecting royalties. With forum comments. [LWN: Linux Weekly News] (May 28, 2003)
- 2190
- Novell Torpedoes SCO's Unix IP Claim
- Novell has rebuffed SCO's claim to hold Unix copyrights and patents, claiming to hold them, and discloses SCO has been begging Novell for rights to IP that SCO claims it already has. [The Register] (May 28, 2003)
- 2191
- Red Hat's Memorandum in Opposition to SCO's Motion to Dismiss
- Documents for court, that laws exist that were written to forbid firms making false or misleading statements about another's product: the Lanham Act. [Groklaw] [PDF] (September 29, 2003)
- 2192
- Red Hat v The SCO Group
- Full, uncommented text of original 4 August complaint, by plaintiff Red Hat, Inc., versus The SCO Group, Inc., formerly Caldera International, Inc. [LWN: Linux Weekly News] [PDF] (August 04, 2003)
- 2193
- SGI's Code Scrub Not Clean Enough for SCO
- Silicon Graphics, after internal review, cut 200 source code lines responding to SCO threat to revoke its irrevocable Unix license; code was from high-throughput journaled XFS filesystem, made at SGI years after Unix NFS. [The Register] (October 07, 2003)
- 2194
- SCO Set to Take SGI's Unix License Away
- SGI may join IBM on SCO list of intellectual property thieves. In recent SEC filing, SGI says SCO threatened to revoke SGI Unix license due to a breach of contract, similar to IBM complaint, to disrupt Irix sales. [The Register] (October 02, 2003)
- 2195
- Sun Is Currently Distributing the 2.4 Kernel under the GPL
- Sun considers offering their own Linux version, and indemnifying customers based on Sun license with SCO. [Groklaw] (July 29, 2003)
- 2196
- Sun Comes out from behind the Clouds
- Sun is 2nd SCO licensee; pact, signed early 2003, expands Sun's 1994 rights to use Unix in Solaris OS; SCO also granted warrant to buy up to 210,000 shares SCO stock, $1.83 a share as part of deal, according to regulatory document. [Groklaw] (July 10, 2003)
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- The Solaris Trap
- Sun to release source code to Solaris, proprietary Unix, under Sun Community Source License. This poses a threat: it creates temptation to include non-free code into parts of Linux; could open Linux long crippling series of intellectual property fights, lawsuits. [LWN: Linux Weekly News] (October 04, 1999)
- 2198
- SCO Plans to Stay in UnitedLinux, Despite IP Beef
- SCO tries to move on, despite heated intellectual property (IP) battle with IBM, to remain a consortium member, according to Thor Christianson, SCO director of ISV/IHV relations. [LinuxPlanet] (May 05, 2003)