SCO says proprietary source code underlying Unix has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. SCO critics argue that because the company shipped a Linux product under an open-source license ...

According to a statement from Microsoft, the company will license SCO's Unix patents and the source code. That code is at the heart of a $1 billion lawsuit between SCO and IBM, which is ...

Learn More. The SCO Group on Friday once again reiterated that it is the only rightful owner of the Unix System V source code and all related copyrights. The question of the copyright transfer is ...

The issue blew up a few months ago when SCO claimed that IBM had stolen its intellectual property, in the form of Unix code, and incorporated it within Linux, the open source version of Unix.

As it promised to do two weeks ago, The SCO Group Inc. has revealed to several industry analysts some of the Linux source code that it claims was illegally copied from Unix. But opinions vary on ...

It’s hard to think of a less likely proponent of open source than the SCO ... the large amount of GNU and GPL code bundled with them. Today, you can lump Unix in that category as well.

But Novell Inc., which is buying Linux vendor SUSE Linux AG , challenged SCO’s copyright claims by asserting that it owns the rights to the Unix System V source code. Novell said it has been ...

In return, SCO got Unix source code and the right to license improved versions, he said. "It's an important win for the open-source community because SCO had argued there was protected Unix in ...

What makes SCO so certain that parts of Unix have been incorporated into Linux? SCO says it hired several consultants to compare the source codes of the two operating systems, and claims that bits ...