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SCO attacks Novell over Linux sales

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Many years and many writs into its battle over Unix copyrights, SCO is finally suing a Linux vendor over Linux

After three years of accusations, SCO Group has finally begun aiming a legal charge of copyright infringement toward a Linux supplier.

The claim is in an amendment SCO proposes to make to its lawsuit against Novell, whose sales of Linux, SCO argues, violate SCO’s purported Unix copyrights. SCO filed its request to add the claim on Dec. 30, nearly two years after it first filed its suit against Novell.

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SCO, MySQL Bring MySQL to OpenServer

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

SCO and MySQL announced Friday that the two would be working together to jointly deliver the commercial version of the MySQL database to SCO’s latest Unix release, OpenServer 6.

Although SCO Group Inc. is known for its IP (intellectual property) battles with IBM and Linux-related companies, the company has long used open-source programs in its operating systems.

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SCO bites back on Linux memo claims

Friday, July 15th, 2005

The SCO Group has slammed as “inaccurate” suggestions an e-mail from one of its own engineers showed Linux did not contain copyright Unix code.

The 2002 e-mail, published by Internet law site Groklaw as part of its ongoing coverage of SCO’s copyright infringement claims against Linux vendor IBM and user Autozone, was sent to a senior vice president at the company by an in-house engineer and later forwarded on to chief executive Darl McBride.

However, SCO said in a statement this afternoon, “it would simply be inaccurate – and misleading — to use Mr Davidson’s e-mail to suggest that SCO’s internal investigation revealed no problems.”

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SCO e-mail: No ‘smoking gun’ in Linux code

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

A 2002 e-mail suggests that an investigation commissioned by The SCO Group failed to produce any evidence that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code.

The e-mail, which was sent to SCO Group CEO Darl McBride by a senior vice president at the company, forwards on an e-mail from a SCO engineer. In the Aug. 13, 2002, e-mail, engineer Michael Davidson said “At the end, we had found absolutely nothing ie (sic) no evidence of any copyright infringement whatsoever.”

The e-mail was posted Thursday to Internet law site Groklaw.

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