SCO Rattles its Saber....

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Mon, 01/09/2006 - 11:22 — kebernet

... its small, limp saber:

Many years and many writs into its battle over Unix copyrights, SCO is finally suing a Linux vendor over Linux.

After three years of accusations, SCO Group has finally begun aiming a legal charge of copyright infringement toward a Linux supplier.

The claim is in an amendment SCO proposes to make to its lawsuit against Novell, whose sales of Linux, SCO argues, violate SCO's purported Unix copyrights. SCO filed its request to add the claim on Dec. 30, nearly two years after it first filed its suit against Novell.

In the proposed claim, the SCO argues, "SCO is the sole and exclusive owner of the copyrights in Unix... Novell has infringed and continues to infringe SCO's copyrights by copying, reproducing, modifying, sublicensing and/or distributing Linux products containing unauthorised contribution of SCO's copyrighted material. Novell's unauthorised copying in its use and distribution of SuSE Linux includes... the appropriation of numerous data structures and algorithms contained in or derived from SCO's copyrighted material."

Is anyone even taking this seriously anymore? More good stuff here.