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SCO: Linux lawsuit to be filed Tuesday

edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
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.

[blockquote]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_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    They chose Autozone as a target. Sources: TechRepublic, eWeek-- both were headline emails of newsletters I got today.

    John D.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited March 2004
    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.
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited March 2004
    wtf man, why are they trying to mess with linux? what has it done wrong?

    im confused... :scratch:
  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    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.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2004
    Jengo wrote:
    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:
  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    Jengo, to the right of the article is a link to a video feed covering an interview with SCO CEO.
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