IBM Probes Microsoft's Relationship with SCO

[Joshua Zeidner]

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=9C46B7CD-67E3-46E6-A23F-6C6BEF6A1DD3

also Financial Times had a good article yesterday.

BTW- Bill Gates + Google CEO will be on C-SPAN 2 tonight... should be good.

On 2/24/06, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz at cox.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday 24 February 2006 03:22 am, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> > 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.
>
> please provide a link or links for this assertion.
>
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------- Forwarded message (begin)
> > >
> > > 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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