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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