[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Some of the world’s biggest companies could shortly face
lawsuits over their use of the Linux computer operating system, the
executive at the centre of the growing legal storm over the
software has warned.“The potential lawsuits would escalate the legal wrangle around
Linux, dragging non-US companies into a battle that has threatened
to derail one of the technology industry’s biggest recent success
stories.“BP, Siemens and Fujitsu are among a large number of big
companies whose use of the operating system has come under
scrutiny, said Darl McBride, chief executive of SCO, the small US
company that has mounted the challenge…”