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  • AU open source group dobs on SCO

    Open Source Victoria claims SCO is violating the Trade Practices Act and has updated its complaint with the ACCC against the software company.

  • Open source group says no to SCO

    A leading free software group has vowed to fight portions of a request to release information that could help the SCO Group in its legal battle against Linux.

  • Linux war of words escalates

    Open-source software leaders Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens fired back at the SCO Group, disputing the company's latest swipe at Linux and the open-source development method.

  • Survey: Linux programmers yawn at SCO

    A new survey has found that 73 percent of Linux programmers believe the SCO Group's legal attacks on the open-source operating system lack merit.

  • Novell offers legal protection for Linux

    Novell expects this week to begin offering SuSE Linux customers some legal protection for using the open-source operating system, the fourth legal umbrella to emerge from a computing industry grappling with legal threats brought by SCO Group.

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  • Is open source in deep trouble?

    No matter what the outcome of SCO's suit against IBM over open-source code, corporations will be wary of any open-source investments, especially those that could unwittingly bring new legal risks.

  • SCO takes aim at Linux users

    Unix copyrights in hand, SCO tells companies that licenses will keep them out of the courtroom.

  • SCO: Threat to Torvalds overstated

    SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said a published report that his company may take legal action against Linux founder Linus Torvalds was overstated.

  • Who really owns Unix?

    Allen Brown, CEO of The Open Group, explains that his organisation owns the Unix trademark and that SCO Group holds the rights only to the OS source code.

  • High alert for open source?

    Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said Thursday.

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Reviews (9)

  • Linux gets renewed heart

    Updated code for the heart of current Linux products was released Friday, in the first major revamp to the kernel since November.

  • MyDoom is YourDoom

    Viruses like MyDoom spread more quickly than warm butter on toast. Why?

  • SCO vs the Linux world...What's a Linux user to do?

    Commentary: SCO's lawsuit against IBM has sparked controversy in the open-source world - here are some things for Linux users to consider.

  • It's a Matrix moment for Linux

    We are finding out that the brains of Linux programmers have been floating in tanks, feeding the parasitic robots (lawyers) who are calling the shots at financially strapped SCO. Now it's time to harvest those brains.

  • New Linux versions follow standard path

    Four new versions of Linux have been certified to comply with guidelines set down by the Linux Standard Base.

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