ZDNet: SCO, IBM Battle Heats Up | Linux Today

ZDNet: SCO, IBM Battle Heats Up

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 13, 2003

“Subpoenas are flying in the high-profile lawsuit between the
SCO Group and IBM, as both companies try to buttress their legal
claims by turning to third parties for information.

“SCO said Wednesday that it has filed subpoenas with the U.S.
District Court in Utah, targeting six different individuals or
organizations. Those include Novell; Linus Torvalds, creator of the
Linux kernel; Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation;
Stewart Cohen, chief executive of the Open Source Development Labs;
and John Horsley, general counsel of Transmeta.

“SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said he did not know what the
subpoenas asked for, but ‘I know that some of them have been
served…'”

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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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