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The Register: SCO sues IBM for $1 Billion for ‘Devaluing Unix’

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“The SCO Group (formerly Caldera), which owns the
UNIXTM trademark, has filed suit against IBM for
investing in Linux and giving away proprietary technology in the
operating system. IBM has a proprietary
UNIXTM–AIXTM–but has invested heavily in
Linux, and with a thousand staff, is effectively the largest
LinuxTM employer.

“‘IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away
to LinuxTM,’ said Scaldera CEO Darl McBride.

“Which is phenomenally strange. The ‘SCO Group’ was founded as a
pure-play LinuxTM company, still has a
LinuxTM business itself, and if it believes that merging
proprietary UNIXTM technologies into LinuxTM
is worth suing over, you’d think the first outfit it would sue
would be itself…”

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