The Register: SCO sues IBM for $1 Billion for 'Devaluing Unix'

"The SCO Group (formerly Caldera), which owns the UNIX^TM trademark, has filed suit against IBM for investing in Linux and giving away proprietary technology in the operating system. IBM has a proprietary UNIX^TM--AIX^TM--but has invested heavily in Linux, and with a thousand staff, is effectively the largest Linux^TM employer.

"'IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux^TM,' said Scaldera CEO Darl McBride.

"Which is phenomenally strange. The 'SCO Group' was founded as a pure-play Linux^TM company, still has a Linux^TM business itself, and if it believes that merging proprietary UNIX^TM technologies into Linux^TM is worth suing over, you'd think the first outfit it would sue would be itself..."

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