Groklaw: SCO’s Second Amended Complaint, If the Judge Says Yes

1. “UNIX is a computer operating system program and related
   software and documentation originally developed by AT&T Bell
   Laboratories (‘AT&T’). UNIX is widely used in the corporate, or
   ‘enterprise,’ computing environment.
2. “Through a series of corporate acquisitions, SCO presently owns
   all right, title and interest in and to UNIX and UnixWare operating
   system source code, software and sublicensing agreements, together
   with copyrights, additional licensing rights in and to UNIX and
   UnixWare, and claims against all parties breaching such agreements.
   Through agreements with UNIX vendors, SCO controls the right of all
   UNIX vendors to use and distribute UNIX. These restrictions on the
   use and distribution of UNIX are designed to protect the economic
   value of UNIX.
3. “A variant or clone of UNIX currently exists in the computer
   marketplace called ‘Linux.’ Linux is, in material part, based upon
   UNIX source code and methods…”

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