IBM Probes Microsoft's Relationship with SCO

[Joshua Zeidner]

there are definately major things happening in this space:

http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/opensource02162006.htm

Also microsoft is facing a brand new anti-trust lawsuit.  I think this one
will sink the ship.



On 2/24/06, Technomage <technomage-hawke at cox.net> wrote:
>
> ran across this in a linux based newsgroup.
>
> looks like interesting things are happeneing.
>
>
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> Subject: IBM Probes Microsoft's Relationship with SCO
> From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups at schestowitz.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:15:50 -0700
> Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy
>
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260537_msftibm23.html
>
> IBM demands documents detailing Microsoft's rivalry with Linux
>
> "IBM Corp. is seeking to compel Microsoft Corp. to hand over internal
> documents detailing its rivalry with the Linux operating system, in a move
> that could shed new light on the Redmond company's response to one of its
> biggest competitive threats."
>
> "...It's the latest development in IBM's long-running legal dispute with
> the
> SCO Group. SCO, a software company based in Lindon, Utah, has filed suit
> against IBM and other companies, alleging that components of its Unix
> software were added illegally to Linux.
>
> Microsoft isn't a party to the litigation, and it says it's not involved.
> But
> that assertion has been under scrutiny since 2003, when Microsoft began
> licensing Unix technology from SCO. Ultimately, the related payments from
> Microsoft to SCO totaled more than $16 million, or 21 percent of SCO's
> revenue that year..."
>
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