IBM argues that the open-source General Public License negates SCO's proprietary claims and that its antagonist's software violates four IBM patents. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Red Hat escalated the legal war over Linux on Monday, announcing that it has filed a lawsuit against the SCO Group. The seven-count suit seeks, among other things, a declaratory ...

SCO just announced that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and while the company will apply the obligatory lipstick to this pig, you can expect the move to mark the beginning of the end for one ...

A month after being on the losing end of a critical legal ruling in its campaign to claim ownership of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights, the SCO Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from ...

coverage from the Linux gathering. In a 45-page document filed late Wednesday, IBM argues that because SCO distributed a version of Linux under the open-source General Public License (GPL), it can't ...