The SCO Group Inc. won a legal victory in its multibillion-dollar lawsuit against IBM over software code used in Linux when a federal judge in Salt Lake City ordered IBM to turn over programming code to SCO’s lawyers.
The software code in question is at the center of the lawsuit SCO filed in 2003 accusing the computer giant of violating its trade secrets by introducing part of its Unix source code, or software blueprint, into Linux — a freely available operating system. Lindon, Utah-based SCO is also trying to get users of Linux software to pay the company licensing fees.