Groklaw: SCO Tells the DE Judge a Story--The July 6 Letter

"And to finish out our collection of Ret Hat letters, here is SCO's letter for July. They sent this on July 6, the very same day Red Hat sent their quarterly sum-up of the status of the IBM lawsuit. Here is what Red Hat told the judge about what has been going on there..."

"'In March 2003, SCO filed a Complaint against IBM asserting breach of contract and various state law claims arising out of IBM's alleged misappropriation of SCO's purported confidential information for use in the Linux operating system. Although SCO did not assert copyright infringement against IBM at that time, it subsequently amended its Complaint to add such a claim. On March 29, 2004, IBM amended its counterclaims against SCO seeking, inter alia, a declaratory judgment that IBM is not infringing any of SCO's copyrights through its use, reproduction and improvement of Linux and that SCO's asserted copyrights are invalid and unenforceable...'"

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