SCO: Linux lawsuit to be filed Tuesday

[SM-Bot]

The SCO Group plans to expand its Linux legal attack on Tuesday by filing a lawsuit against a large company using the open-source operating system.

SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride announced the plan Monday at the Software 2004 conference here, but he didn't identify the company beyond saying it would have a recognized name.

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[Straight_Man]

They chose Autozone as a target. Sources: TechRepublic, eWeek-- both were headline emails of newsletters I got today.

John D.

[a2jfreak]

EV1 Servers gave SCO money (don't know how much, I read somewhere it was $1M but I don't know if that was accurate). I'm guessing this was done in an attemp to not have their web-hosting service possibly crippled by a SCO lawsuit.

Personally, I wish they hadn't given SCO a dime because I think it sets a bad precedent and because I think SCO's lawsuit is absolutely ridiculous, but then again I don't have ten of thousands of customers to look out for so I guess I would need more information before I could say EV1 did the wrong thing.

[Jengo]

wtf man, why are they trying to mess with linux? what has it done wrong?

im confused... :scratch:

[ginipig]

Jengo, iirc, SCO claims that Linux "stole" code from SCO - code that was intellectual property. I believe it was the errno.h, and signal.h codes.

[Spinner]

wtf man, why are they trying to mess with linux? what has it done wrong?

im confused... :scratch:

Read the related news link for more info dude. :wink:

[ginipig]

Jengo, to the right of the article is a link to a video feed covering an interview with SCO CEO.