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SearchEnterpriseLinux: LinuxWorld Attendees Say Litigation Fears Waning

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 17, 2005

[ Thanks to Jan
Stafford
for this link. ]

“The SCO Group Inc.’s intellectual property suit against IBM
appears to be on life support this week following some tough words
from the judge in the case about a lack of evidence. And attendees
of the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo said they really aren’t
surprised.

“Several people attending the conference said they were
convinced long ago that SCO — which charges that IBM violated a
contract by taking proprietary Unix trade secrets and building them
into open source Linux — was pursuing a lost cause…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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