Stories by Robert McMillan

SCO's proof bogus, Linux advocate says

The first publicly released sample that The SCO Group claims was improperly added to the Linux source code has every right to be in Linux, according to open-source advocate Bruce Perens.

IBM exec: SCO lawsuit a bump in the road

The man who helped engineer IBM's Linux strategy shared his thoughts on the impact of The SCO Group's US$3 billion lawsuit against his company during a keynote address at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo Wednesday.

US AIX users unruffled by SCO lawsuit

Users of AIX, IBM's version of Unix, say the company's dispute with The SCO Group is having little impact on their AIX purchasing plans, despite SCO's declaration this week that merely using AIX is now an infringement of its rights.

SCO drops Linux, warns Linux users

The SCO Group on Wednesday announced it was abandoning its Linux business and warned commercial Linux users they may be liable for intellectual property violations that, it alleges, exist in the Linux source code.

IBM unleashes T-Rex

The mainframe may be a dinosaur, but it is a carnivorous one. That was IBM's message Tuesday at a press event in San Francisco where it launched its new line of mainframe computers, the first model of which is called the z990 -- code-named T-Rex.

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