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CNET News: Red Hat Adds Legal Firepower

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Stephen Shankland
May 18, 2004

“Linux seller Red Hat, tangled in a legal wrestling match with
the SCO Group, has hired a new top lawyer from IBM.

“Michael Cunningham, who will join Red Hat on June 1, previously
was associate general counsel for IBM’s Business Consulting
Services Division in Europe. In the new post at Red Hat, he’ll be
working at a company that has launched its own legal attack against
SCO and that is a champion of some unconventional notions about
intellectual property…”

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