“Here is IBM’s Redacted Memorandum in Support of IBM’s Motion
for Partial Summary Judgment on its Counterclaim for Copyright
Infringement (8th Counterclaim) as text.“The first thing that stands out is that we learn in paragraph
66 that IBM was among those companies that got a letter from the
first batch SCO sent out in May of 2003, the one sent to the
Fortune 1000 companies. The same paragraph mentions something we’ve
been too busy to write about, but it definitely belongs in our
archives, that SCO on August 10 threatened to increase the cost of
its SCOSource license, ‘which it says companies running Linux need
to buy in order to avoid being sued…'”
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