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

[Terence]

The monster has come back to life!

I shudder when I think of how many hours I spent on the Groklaw site,and
trying to follow the links between the different versions.

I'm still using Debian...

Saki

On 2 November 2017 at 15:07, Leon Goldstein via Linux-users <
linux-users at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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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