[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“The SCO Group, the company that touched off a computer industry
slugfest last spring by suing I.B.M. over its use of Unix software,
may find itself embarrassed by a similar claim against a company
once related to SCO.“Since filing a lawsuit claiming that I.B.M. added parts of the
Unix operating system to the freely distributed Linux software, SCO
has threatened other computer companies, the open source software
movement and hundreds of corporations that rely on Linux, saying
they are unfairly using Unix software that SCO owns.“But in an unpublicized case, one of SCO’s former sister
companies, Lineo, has agreed to quietly settle a third party’s
accusations that it engaged in the same kind of copyright
infringement that is at the heart of SCO’s claim against I.B.M.,
industry executives who have been briefed on the matter
said…”
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