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Sydney Morning Herald: Australian Firm Again Asks SCO to Show Proof of IP Violations

Written By
SV
Sam Varghese
Feb 3, 2004

[ Thanks to Stuart
Cunningham
for this link. ]

“The owner of a Perth-based open source consulting company has
written to The SCO Group in Australia for a second time, asking the
Utah-based company to provide proof of what it claims are IP
violations in the Linux kernel.

“Leon Brooks wrote to Kieran O’Shaughnessy, the SCO Group’s
regional general manager, Australia and New Zealand, initially on
January 21. In that letter, he said that if SCO did not provide
proof by February 1, he would refer the matter to the appropriate
legal authorities.

“At that time, SCO had just announced the availablility of its
intellectual property licence in Australia and New Zealand. The
company 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

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