Sydney Morning Herald: Aust Firm Tells SCO to Detail Evidence | Linux Today

Sydney Morning Herald: Aust Firm Tells SCO to Detail Evidence

Written By
SV
Sam Varghese
Jan 22, 2004

“A Perth-based open source consulting company has told the SCO
Group that unless it details, by February 1, the specifics of what
it claims are IP violations in the Linux kernel, the company would
refer the matter to the appropriate legal authorities.

“Leon Brooks, director of CyberKnights, wrote to Kieran
O’Shaughnessy, the SCO Group’s regional general manager, Australia
and New Zealand, yesterday after SCO announced the availablility of
its intellectual property licence in Australia and New Zealand.

“SCO claims that some UNIX code which it owns has been
incorporated into Linux; this is the basis for selling the
licences…”

Complete
Story

SV

Sam Varghese

Linux Today Logo

LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.

Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2026 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.