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ZDNet UK: SuSE: SCO’s Anti-Linux Attacks are ‘Curious’

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 15, 2003

“SuSE Linux has said it plans to continue honouring its
commitments to Linux group UnitedLinux, despite allegations by SCO
Group–also a UnitedLinux founding member–that Linux contains
unauthorised intellectual property.

“In the mean time, Linux vendors MandrakeSoft and Red Hat said
they had not been contacted about SCO’s allegations and did not see
them affecting business.

“Thus far, SCO’s legal attacks have been limited to IBM, a SCO
licensee, which it claims used SCO’s trade secrets illegally to
improve Linux. Wednesday’s move stands to widen the assault to
include Linux users and Linux vendors, including SCO’s own
UnitedLinux partners…”

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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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