UNIX owner sues IBM over Linux
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Last weekend, SCO Group, which now owns much of the intellectual property for the UNIX operating system, sued International Business Machines (IBM) for over $1 billion, charging the industry giant with misappropriating SCO's technologies and building them into Linux. The suit, which has far-reaching ramifications for the open source software solution, charges IBM with "misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, breach of contract and tortious interference" with SCO's business. SCO says it will revoke IBM's UNIX license to ship IBM AIX if the company doesn't stop its anticompetitive practices within 100 days.