SCO says proprietary source code underlying Unix has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. SCO critics argue that because the company shipped a Linux product under an open-source license, that ...

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An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...

Application security testing company CodeSecure Inc. today announced a new strategic partnership with open-source compliance and security platform provider FOSSA Inc. and introduced a product ...

In a statement released Monday, the Lindon, Utah-based company--which is embroiled in a legal battle with IBM over Linux--said it has received copyrights to Unix and will enforce its ownership of the ...

Novell Inc. is reasserting the claim that it, and not The SCO Group Inc., owns the copyright to the Unix System V source code that has been at the heart of a protracted dispute between SCO and the ...

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Unix developer The SCO Group Inc. on Monday stepped up its efforts to collect license fees from Linux users and reported a quarterly net loss as a result of legal costs associated with its ...

Open-source software has underlying source code--the instructions that programmers write--that may be freely seen, changed and redistributed. This contrasts sharply with proprietary software from ...

Objecting to SCO's demands are Linus Torvalds, who began the Linux project 12 years ago and who still leads its development, and Eben Moglen, the attorney for the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which ...

As it continues its legal fight to enforce its ownership claims for Unix System V source code, The SCO Group Inc. today said it has now received U.S. copyrights for the code. In a related move, SCO ...