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It's the end of an era. As The Reg covered last week, IBM has transferred development of AIX to India. Why should IBM pay for an expensive US-based team to maintain its own proprietary flavor of official Unix when it paid 34 billion bucks for its own FOSS flavor in Red Hat? Here at The Reg FOSS desk, we've felt this was coming ever since we reported that Big Blue was launching new POWER servers which didn't support AIX – already nearly eight years ago. Even if it was visibly coming over the horizon, this is a significant event: AIX...

Judge Kimball comes through. He has granted IBM their 45-day extension, and he also says they don't have to turn over the materials that are the subject of their Motion for Reconsideration until the court rules on that motion, which is exactly what IBM asked for. They submitted this proposed order. IBM filed its Motion for 45-Day Extension of Time to Comply with 1/18/05 Order on March 9, and SCO filed an Memorandum in Opposition to IBM's Motion for 45-Day Extension of Time to Comply with 1/18/05 Order on March 15, 2005. This order is dated March 16. I take...

SCO Preparing Legal Action Against CustomerBy Matthew Aslett SCO Group Inc is preparing to take a Linux user to court to speed up the legal process in its claim Unix code has been illegally copied into Linux, and also encourage Linux users to take out a license for its intellectual property. The company has signed one large customer up to its Intellectual Property License for Linux, but faces opposition from many more who believe SCO must prove its claims in a court of law before they will hand over the $700 per CPU for the license. Speaking at SCO's Forum...

NEW YORK - Linux vendors are under attack. In March, IBM was sued for $1 billion by The SCO Group, of Lindon, Utah, which claims IBM has put SCO's Unix code into Linux, the open-source software program. SCO also has sent letters to 1,500 large companies warning them that if they are using Linux, they may face legal problems. Though IBM is the only company named in SCO's lawsuit, other Linux vendors, like Red Hat and SuSE Linux, could suffer collateral damage. Why You Won't Be Getting A Linux PC The Limitations Of LinuxBoies' Take On LinuxPeopleSoft Jumps On The...