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< Years into case, SCO asserts copyright infringement By Stephen Shankland http://news.com.com/Years+into+case%2C+SCO+asserts+copyright+infringement/2100-1016_3-6022453.html Story last modified Fri Jan 06 15:49:00 PST 2006 < After three years of accusations, SCO Group has finally begun aiming a legal charge of copyright infringement toward a Linux supplier. The claim is in an amendment SCO proposes to make to its lawsuit against Novell, whose sales of Linux, SCO argues, violate SCO's purported Unix copyrights. SCO filed its request to add the claim on Dec. 30, nearly two years after it first filed its suit against Novell. In the proposed claim, the Lindon, Utah-based SCO...

An Open Letter from the USENIX Association Regarding SCO's Position on Open Source Software The SCO Group, Inc. (SCO), has recently sued IBM and Novell and launched broad attacks on the legality of and the economic justification for so-called open source licensing, including the free licensing of Linux (see SCO's open letter to Congress). As an organization dedicated to advancing the skills and contributions of computer researchers and developers, the USENIX Association is compelled to address and refute the position SCO has taken regarding open source software. USENIX is sending this letter (PDF) to Congress. SCO letter link http://www.osaia.org/letters/sco_hill.pdf Usenix...

Groklaw sends a Dear Darl letter Tells SCO to expect legal action By Egan Orion: Saturday 20 September 2003, 11:33 A GROUP from the open source / free software community has put together a response to SCO CEO Darl McBride's "Open Letter to the Open Source Community". The INQUIRER is glad to print Groklaw's "Dear Darl" letter, along with their research. µ Dear Mr. McBride, Recently you wrote an "open letter to the open source community" published September 9, 2003 by LinuxWorld. This reply is from a group within the open source / free software community. Because you addressed your...

Groklaw's Open Letter to SCO's CEO Darl McBride Saturday, September 20 2003 @ 12:21 PM EDT Dear Mr. McBride, Recently you wrote an "open letter to the open source community" published September 9, 2003 by LinuxWorld. This reply is from a group within the open source/free software community. Because you addressed your letter to our community-at-large, we thought we should answer you ourselves. Our community isn't organized hierarchically like a corporation, so it has no CEO or overall leader in that sense, except that Linus Torvalds leads Linux kernel development and Richard Stallman leads the GNU Project and the Free...

Raving Luni, aka Ron of Linux-Universe has contributed this interesting analysis of the current battle raging against Open Source, and by extension, Freedom in general. Sun is behind it too, very much. The Unholy Trinity shares one common issue: "Open Source software is eating into their profits". So they all support this action in a desperate attempt to save their business model. Here are the patients: SCO is in critical condition, so they go first. Sun is in serious condition, they will come too, more forcefully if they don't find a successful business arround OSS first. So they play both...

LINDON, Utah, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Darl McBride, CEO of The SCO Group, sent the following letter, dated Sept. 9, 2003, to the Open Source community: The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is the ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell proprietary software, and the Open Source community. My company, the SCO Group, became a focus of this controversy when we filed a lawsuit against IBM alleging that SCO's proprietary UNIX code has been illegally copied into the free Linux operating system. In...

SCO to send out Linux invoices By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com September 2, 2003, 5:54 PM PT The SCO Group is turning up the heat in its attempt to impose Unix license fees for Linux use: It plans to begin sending invoices to companies before the month is out. The Lindon, Utah-based company announced in August that it wants corporations to buy Unix licenses for using the similar Linux operating system, asking $699 for a single-processor Linux server. But Tuesday, SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said the company will begin the more active approach of sending invoices requesting payment...

Excert due to copyright restraints. SCO: to pay or not to pay SCO has started invoicing Linux users that it claims are illegally using copied Unix code. August 26, 2003 11:58 AM GMT (Datamonitor) - SCO [SCOX] is beginning to invoice Linux users for their use of Unix code that it says has been illegally copied into the open source operating system. This leaves IT shops around the world with a deceptively simple decision: pay the fine, or take a chance. MORE at: SCO: to pay or not to pay SCO has started invoicing Linux users that it claims are...

Getting a glimpse at SCO's evidence By Lisa M. Bowman CNET News.com August 19, 2003, 6:22 AM PT LAS VEGAS--When SCO Group first filed its lawsuit against IBM in March, critics characterized the move as the last gasp of an ailing company hoping to strike a series of lucrative licensing deals. Since then the company has come out swinging even harder, bashing its detractors, standing by its allegations, and most recently, posting a profit that SCO said would allow it to continue its aggressive intellectual property fight. At the SCO Forum here Monday, the company pulled out its latest weapon:...

SCO puts disputed code in the spotlight By Lisa M. Bowman CNET News.com August 18, 2003, 2:07 PM PT LAS VEGAS--SCO Group's legal battles against Linux took center stage at the company's partner and customer conference, as executives displayed the lines of disputed code and vowed to continue the fight. The Lindon, Utah-based company has rattled Linux users by suing IBM, claiming that the company inserted unauthorized code from SCO's Unix into Linux. SCO has also sent letters to corporations with Linux systems, warning them that they may be violating copyright laws by using the increasingly popular operating system. During...

Invoice is in the Mail, Says SCO By Gavin Clarke SCO Group Inc is preparing to invoice customers running or developing with Linux, while broadening its copyright net to include manufacturers of embedded systems. The company told ComputerWire it would begin sending out invoices to organizations using Linux as a step towards enforcing SCO's claim that UnixWare System V code is used in Linux. Invoices will be dispatched in the "next weeks or months" a company spokesperson confirmed. Those being billed will include 1,500 end-users who were earlier this year informed by SCO in writing they should seek legal advice...

<p>Many Linux customers have no intention of paying The SCO Group for a UnixWare license that would indemnify them from legal liability for using the open-source operating system.</p> <p>SCO, which is suing IBM over Unix for more than $1 billion and which claims that Linux is an illegal derivative of Unix, last week said Linux users are also violating SCO's Unix copyrights, particularly now that SCO has registered a U.S. copyright for its Unix System V source code.</p>

SCO is giving the "tainted" Linux users out there a way to clean up their filthy ways via a licensing program that will begin in the coming weeks. After dolling out threats of legal action, SCO has called on enterprise Linux users to come forward and pay for code the company claims to own. The legal zealots at SCO reckon Linux has grown up too fast by nicking technology such as support for large SMP systems from its copyrighted Unix code. SCO plans to start calling Linux customers this week, asking them to pay up or face the consequences. "Following...

SCO readies new Linux licensing program Users would get access to OS without fear of litigation By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service July 18, 2003 The SCO Group is preparing a new Linux licensing program that it claims will allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without fear of litigation. The program will be announced "within the next month or so," according to SCO spokesman Blake Stowell, but on Monday the company will announce what he calls a "precursor" to this program in a press conference with SCO Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride and SCO's high-profile attorney...