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SCO Battle Continues, IBM Countersues
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Posted by: TotalRecall
NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM on Thursday fired the latest volley in a war over the freely distributed Linux operating system and the code it's based on, charging in a countersuit that SCO Group Inc. violated license agreements.
IBM, in its counter-suit filed in federal court in Utah, said SCO had infringed on four IBM patents and breached the general public license for Linux, according to the court documents. SCO is based in Lindon, Utah.
IBM, the world's largest computer company, also said that SCO had damaged its business by disparaging IBM's AIX operating system, or IBM's version of the Unix operating system, by saying it would revoke IBM's Unix licensing rights.
"We view IBM's counterclaim filing today as a weak effort to distract attention from its flawed Linux business model. It repeats the same unsubstantiated allegations made in Red Hat's filing earlier this week," SCO said.
If you can't get enough of this, C|Net has an interview with Matthew Szulik, RedHat's CEO, here.
Posted by: fibbi
Haha, i think this whole SCO thing is so poorly timed. I mean, doing it the week of Linux world? I might go myself tommorow just to see everyone conspiring on how to legally/ilegally bring SCO to it's knees.
Posted by: TotalRecall
Oh yeah, and SCO wants $32 for every Linux embedded device.
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