An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...

Novell Inc. is reasserting the claim that it, and not The SCO Group Inc., owns the copyright to the Unix System V source code that has been at the heart of a protracted dispute between SCO and the ...

Just days after The SCO Group escalated its legal battle with IBM over alleged violations of the two companies’ Unix source code contract, open source advocate Eric Raymond has responded, saying that ...

The SCO Group Inc. fired another shot across the bows of corporate Linux users last month, sending a letter to some Fortune 1,000 companies contending that their use of the open-source operating ...

On Tuesday, the Lindon, Utah, Unix company filed a copyright infringement claim against Memphis, Tenn.-based AutoZone, a Linux user and former SCO customer, for allegedly using one or more versions of ...

The SCO Group, arguably, isn’t making many friends in the Linux camp these days. In March it filed a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM for allegedly misusing Unix code to bolster Linux efforts. SCO owns ...

In a statement released Monday, the Lindon, Utah-based company--which is embroiled in a legal battle with IBM over Linux--said it has received copyrights to Unix and will enforce its ownership of the ...

The software maker says it has begun receiving Unix copyrights and that it will start a program to let companies that run Linux avoid litigation by paying licensing fees. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

SCO Group, inheritor of the intellectual property for the Unix operating system, sues IBM for more than $1 billion. Analysts say the move is a desperate one. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...