“Unix vendor SCO Group’s intellectual property lawsuit against
IBM has been widely seen as a go-for-broke strategy. Now it looks
more like just a plan to go broke.“Utah District Court Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells in late June
dismissed 182 of the 201 claims IBM sought to have thrown out of
the case; 112 claims remain. The legal action dates back to March
2003, when SCO charged that IBM’s contributions to the Linux open
source operating system contained lines of code that it had
purloined from SCO’s Unix software…”