NewsForge: Legal Bungling Sank SCO Group’s Investigation Against DaimlerChrysler

“NewsForge has found that The SCO Group, which purports to have
ownership of all Unix System V code, was also fishing for usage of
its proprietary code in Linux systems when it filed a lawsuit March
3 against multinational automaker DaimlerChrysler–even though the
actual complaint said otherwise. On paper, the lawsuit alleged only
that DaimlerChrysler had not recertified with SCO Group the use of
its old Unix code, as required by the original license contract
between Chrysler Motors Corp. (now DaimlerChrysler) and AT&T
Information Systems (which owned the Unix code at that time).

“In fact, DaimlerChrysler proved that it had complied with the
original license by certifying its use of Unix System V code with
SCO Group on April 6, 2004, 11 weeks before Michigan Judge Rae Lee
Chabot’s dismissal of most of the case on July 21. DaimlerChrysler
IT manager Norman Powell did this by attesting that no SCO-owned
code had been used in DaimlerChrysler’s shop for more than seven
years, thus there were no CPUs to be accounted for…”

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