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The sleeping big blue giant awakens and fires back at SCO

Tue, 08/12/2003 - 08:05 — charlie.collins

SCO pretty much asked for it, and I hope they get what they deserve. After all of the SCO suing IBM over Linux debacle IBM decided "hey lets look around and see what the hell SCO is violating, since they insist on playing this game".

The countersuit IBM has filed includes SCO GPL violations, 4 IBM patent infringements in UnixWare, slander and compensatory and punitive damages. I bet things are interesting over at SCO right now (whose frickin idea was this again?)!

Now the fun begins. Of course this mess will take YEARS in various courts but IBM doesnt really give a crap (and is a veteran of monstrous tech litigation), SCO on the other hand likely cant afford this battle and apparently picked the wrong company to pick on (umm, dont sue people if you are infringing on their patents, or even if its anywhere near possible that you could be, and IBM has every damn thing under the sun patented, well except the words "Fair and Balanced" which of course belong to Fox News).

For more see the linked article.   Big Blue Chooses to Countersue over Linux: IT-analysis.com

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Tue, 08/12/2003 - 08:46 — jeepmutt (not verified)

Re: The sleeping big blue giant awakens and fires back at SCO

From the [url=http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/2247331]article[/url]:

SCO Group (Quote, Company Info) Monday said it has its first customer for its controversial Intellectual Property Compliance License for SCO UNIX Rights.

The Lindon, Utah-based company would not disclose who exactly plopped down the $699 per CPU for the one-time run-time license in binary form, but Blake Stowell, a spokesperson with SCO, told internetnews.com it was a Fortune 500 company that SCO is not currently involved in litigation with.

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