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At the beginning of its massive legal fight against Linux in 2003, The SCO Group imagined a day when companies like IBM, Novell and others would pay it large amounts of cash for alleged infringements on SCO-owned Unix code.
The SCO Group’s US$5 billion (NZ$7.1 billion) threat against Linux is effectively finished. On Friday August 10, US District Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO doesn’t actually own the copyrights that it was using to threaten — and in some cases, sue — Linux users.
Novell has won a significant ruling in its lengthy battle with The SCO Group.
A US judge has thrown out almost 200 of The SCO Group’s claims of intellectual property violation against IBM on the grounds that SCO didn’t identify the alleged infringements in enough detail.
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The SCO Group, which yesterday announced plans to sue two Linux users in the US, says it has started discussions with New Zealand companies about its claims of copyright over Linux source code.
Large local users lay low until US courts signal intentions
SCO confident customers will respond
A planned $US10 million legal defence fund is being set up by Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) to help defend Linux users from copyright-infringement lawsuits that might be filed against them by The SCO Group.
With the risks of inadvertently using copyright code being sharply brought to open source software users’ attention, at least one company in the field has stepped forward with an assurance of protection.
"We're not trying to make this into a witch hunt"
The story of successful open source projects is the story of triumph over Sturgeon’s Law, the famous maxim that 90% of everything is crap.
"If we’re told what we’re infringing, we’ll correct it"
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