<div dir="ltr"><div><div>The monster has come back to life!<br><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div>I'm still using Debian...<br><br></div>Saki<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 November 2017 at 15:07, Leon Goldstein via Linux-users <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux-users@linux-sxs.org" target="_blank">linux-users@linux-sxs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for posting. Glad to see the list is still alive and kicking!<br>
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I'm using Linux Mint 17.3 and SuSE Tumbleweed these days.<br>
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On 11/02/2017 10:24 AM, Man-wai Chang via Linux-users wrote:<br>
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SCO vs. IBM case over who owns Linux comes back to life. Again<br>
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Full story: <<a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/02/ibm_vs_sco_revives/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.co.uk<wbr>/2017/11/02/ibm_vs_sco_revives<wbr>/</a>><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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