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National Retail Federation: SCO Group Lawsuit Appears Unfounded, Says NRF

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 5, 2004

“Within the last year, The SCO Group has claimed Intellectual
Property rights to parts of the Linux operating system. Within the
last few months, The SCO Group has threatened legal action against
several major retailers for using Linux. The SCO Group claims that
they hold the copyright to Unix and believes that retailers who use
Linux violate SCO’s copyright.

“The following is a statement from NRF CIO Dave Hogan regarding
the lawsuits:

“Based on the information we have seen, the National Retail
Federation believes the claims by The SCO Group are without merit.
Novell Corporation is the last company that can demonstrate legal
ownership of Unix System V…”


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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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