Microsoft will license the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a move that could impact the battle between Windows and Linux in the market for computer operating systems. According to a ...

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, that ...

The software maker's agreement to license Unix lends weight to SCO Group's legal claims of copyright violation and helps Microsoft do battle with Linux. The software maker's agreement to license Unix ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Editors note: In a letter sent to numerous Linux-using companies Thursday, The SCO Group Inc. cited specific code in Linux it claims was taken from its Unix intellectual property. The charges follow ...

The SCO Group is taking its case against the Linux operating system and IBM on the road. Last week, the company began showing code to U.S. analysts that, it claims, proves that the source code to the ...

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 ...

In an e-mail response to CRN, Torvalds, the founder of Linux and top engineer on the open-source project, said he asked SCO's top executive about viewing the code but was not granted absolution from a ...

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 what ...