“International Business Machines Corp. has requested documents
from Intel Corp., the world’s largest chip maker, as it prepares
its defense in a billion-dollar dispute with SCO Group Inc. over
the Linux operating system.“SCO owns license rights to the Unix operating system and has
asserted that IBM introduced part of the Unix code into Linux, a
freely available Unix variant. IBM is a major distributor of Linux,
especially on servers that use Intel’s computer chips…”