The SCO v. IBM Case
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June 18, 2003
In March 2003, SCO (formerly Caldera International) sued IBM for copyright and trademark infringement. It seems that SCO believes that the Linux operating system would not have become good enough to compete with the Microsoft Windows Server operating system if IBM had not violated its Unix license and copied SCO proprietary source code into the source code for the Linux 2.4 and 2.5 kernels.
SCO has terminated IBM's contract that allows IBM to sell the AIX operating system and the SCO suit asks for $3 billion from IBM.
For more information:
- CNET News.com: SCO suit now seeks $3 billion from IBM
- CNET News.com: SCO claims IBM Unix contract void
- CNET News.com: Who really owns Unix?
- eWeek: The Battle Over Unix