Battle between UNIX and Linux heating up
WinInfo | at | by Mike
With the holidays rushing toward us, it should be a quiet time in the tech industry, but a slew of recent developments in the battle over UNIX and Linux ensures that anyone with a stake in this conflict will have some unsettling news to mull over. This week, computing giant Novell revealed that it has spent the past few months quietly registering for the UNIX copyrights the SCO Group claims to own, copyrights SCO has used as a basis for its attack on Linux, a UNIX clone. SCO, meanwhile, has sent a second threatening letter to Linux and IBM AIX customers, warning them that they face lawsuits if they continue to use operating systems SCO says are based, in part, on UNIX code owned by SCO.