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The First Effects of SCO’s Discovery

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 21, 2005

eWeek: How Significant Is SCO’s Win?

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“How significant was The SCO Group Inc.’s victory in its
discovery motion over IBM in the companies’ ongoing battle over
Linux copyright and Unix contract issues? It depends on which
analysts and lawyers you talk to about Magistrate Judge Brooke
Wells’ decision.

“Wells granted SCO’s discovery motion, in which the Lindon,
Utah, company had demanded that IBM turn over the source code of
‘all versions and changes’ of IBM’s AIX and Dynix Unix operating
systems…”

Complete
Story

TheStreet.com: SCO Jumps on IBM Ruling

“Shares of SCO Group bounced Thursday after a judge ordered IBM
to turn over billions of lines of source code to the tiny software
company…”


Complete Story

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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