SCO vs. IBM case over who owns Linux comes back to life. Again

[Leon Goldstein]

Thanks for posting.  Glad to see the list is still alive and kicking!

I'm using Linux Mint 17.3 and SuSE Tumbleweed these days.


On 11/02/2017 10:24 AM, Man-wai Chang via Linux-users wrote:
>
> SCO vs. IBM case over who owns Linux comes back to life. Again
>
> Full story: 
> <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/02/ibm_vs_sco_revives/>
>
> The seemingly endless legal battle between SCO and IBM battle over who 
> owns UNIX, and perhaps bits of Linux, too has re-emerged. And this 
> time SCO has had a win.
>
> As Groklaw records, this case kicked off in 2003. The dispute centres 
> on “Project Monterey” a joint effort by SCO and IBM to build a unified 
> UNIX capable of running on several different microprocessor 
> architectures. SCO – at that time known as the Santa Cruz Organisation 
> – sold versions of UNIX and tossed some of its source code into the 
> Project Monterey mix, as did IBM. The parties signed a “joint 
> development agreement” (JDA) to formalise the deal.
>
> Monterey went pear-shaped because it was complex. Then Linux came 
> along ate its lunch. But SCO alleged that IBM had no real interest in 
> the project and just wanted to see what was inside its versions of 
> UNIX. As IBM later contributed plenty of code to Linux, and used some 
> SCO code in a test version of AIX, SCO and its many legal successors 
> have tried for years to prove that Big Blue lifted its code. At stake, 
> potentially, is omnizillions of dollars in damages given Linux now 
> runs in the guts of a billion Android devices and who-knows-how-many 
> other servers, cars, smart TVs and other widgets. Or lesser damages if 
> AIX alone used SCO code.
>
> .... more ....
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