SCO v. IBM

SCO's lawsuit has been consistent only in its claim of breach of contract (since the abandonment in early 2004 of its claim of misappropriation of trade secrets). SCO's initial claims were: Misappropriation of trade secrets Unfair competition Interference with contract Breach of IBM Software Agreement On July 22, 2003, SCO amended its complaint. It added two new claims: Breach of IBM Sublicensing Agreement ...

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SCO v. IBM, SCO v. IBM - SCO's claims, SCO v. IBM - Free software/open source community reaction, SCO v. IBM - The GPL issue, SCO v. IBM - The GPL and the US Constitution, SCO v. IBM - Novell enters the controversy, SCO v. IBM - Fear uncertainty and doubt, SCO v. IBM - IBM's AIX license, SCO v. IBM - IBM counterclaims against SCO, SCO v. IBM - Discovery, SCO v. IBM - Examples of controversial code revealed, SCO v. IBM - Copyright claims December 2003

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Since the allegedly infringing software had been released to the public by the UC Berkeley, most of the case would hinge on events there. Because UC Berkeley was not originally a party to the suit, the University made its arguments against an injuction in a series of amicus briefs. The University submitted the licenses UC Berkeley had from AT&T for UNIX, which specifically stated that the copyright on the Berkeley software built upon the 32V version of UNIX belonged to the University. They went on to claim that AT&T had confir ...

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USL v. BSDi, USL v. BSDi - Background, USL v. BSDi - USL's complaint, USL v. BSDi - Pretrial, USL v. BSDi - Terms of the settlement

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In the lawsuit, UNIX System Labs alleged that: The Regents of the University of California, by releasing NET-2 "based upon, substantially copied from, or derived from proprietary UNIX": Had violated USL's software license with the UC Berkeley . Had violated USL's copyright on UNIX. Had divulged USL's trade secrets by making public "the methods or concepts used therein". BSDi had known UC Berkeley had no right to release the NET-2 source code (and had in fact induced the University ...

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USL v. BSDi, USL v. BSDi - Background, USL v. BSDi - USL's complaint, USL v. BSDi - Pretrial, USL v. BSDi - Terms of the settlement

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The suit has its roots at the Computer Sciences Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, which had a license for the source code of UNIX from AT&T's Bell Labs. Students doing Operating systems research at the CSRG modified and extended UNIX, and the CSRG made several releases of the modified operating system beginning in 1978, with AT&T's blessing. Because this Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) contained copyrighted AT&T UNIX source code it was only available to organizations with a s ...

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USL v. BSDi, USL v. BSDi - Background, USL v. BSDi - USL's complaint, USL v. BSDi - Pretrial, USL v. BSDi - Terms of the settlement

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Until recently, the details of the settlement have been kept secret between the parties, with the general public consensus being that USL and BSDi had mutually agreed not to litigate further over the software that would later be developed into the free BSDs -- an agreement reached after the judge denied the injunction against BSDi, and after the UNIX IP had been purchased from AT&T by Novell. In November 2004, a copy of the USL v. BSDi settlement agreement was posted to the Groklaw website, obtained from The Regents of the University of ...

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USL v. BSDi, USL v. BSDi - Background, USL v. BSDi - USL's complaint, USL v. BSDi - Pretrial, USL v. BSDi - Terms of the settlement

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Caldera Systems, based in Utah, was founded in 1994 by Ransom Love, and received start-up funding from Ray Noorda. Its main product was Caldera Linux, a Linux distribution mainly targeted at business customers and containing some proprietary additions. In 2000, Caldera acquired several UNIX properties from the Santa Cruz Operation, including OpenServer and UnixWare, proprietary operating systems for PCs that would be exp ...

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SCO Group, SCO Group - History, SCO Group - Products, SCO Group - The Linux Wars, SCO Group - List of recent SCO lawsuits, SCO Group - Timeline

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Reflecting the speed of contemporary pop culture in general and Internet phenomena in particular, many of Slashdot's recurring jokes enjoy brief shelf-lives. Some posters, aware of Slashdot's trolling subculture, often deliberately set out to create and propagate new memes, hoping to make a new joke catch on. A poster will sometimes combine several well-known jokes, including many of those listed below, into one "super-cliche." A successful attempt produces a post that is either quite funny or incredibly annoying, depending on a reader's perspective, and is almost always n ...

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Slashdot subculture, Slashdot subculture - Slashdot user stereotypes, Slashdot subculture - Slashdot articles, Slashdot subculture - RTFA, Slashdot subculture - Duplicate dupe posts and poor editing, Slashdot subculture - Verbal assaults, Slashdot subculture - Trolling, Slashdot subculture - Moderation, Slashdot subculture - Orwellian and other political themes, Slashdot subculture - Fear Uncertainty Doubt, Slashdot subculture - Tinfoil Hat, Slashdot subculture - Welcoming Our New Overlords, Slashdot subculture - In Soviet Russia, Slashdot subculture - Won't somebody please think of the children?, Slashdot subculture - Recurring jokes, Slashdot subculture - Lines and phrases, Slashdot subculture - Pop culture references, Slashdot subculture - Technical humor, Slashdot subculture - Beowulf cluster, Slashdot subculture - Terminal humor, Slashdot subculture - ^H^H^H^H, Slashdot subculture - Buffering, Slashdot subculture - Search and Replace, Slashdot subculture - Slashdot Poll, Slashdot subculture - The CowboyNeal option, Slashdot subculture - You insensitive clod!, Slashdot subculture - Example posts

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At the beginning of 2003, SCO claimed that there had been "misappropriation of its UNIX System V code into Linux". However, the company refused to identify the specific segments of code, claiming that it was a secret which they would only reveal to the court. They did say that the code could be found in the SMP, RCU and a few other parts of the Linux kernel. They later announced that they were suing IBM for $1 billion, claiming that IBM transferred SCO trade secrets into Linux. That amount l ...

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SCO-Linux controversies, SCO-Linux controversies - Background, SCO-Linux controversies - Status of current lawsuits, SCO-Linux controversies - SCO v. IBM, SCO-Linux controversies - Red Hat v. SCO, SCO-Linux controversies - SCO v. Novell, SCO-Linux controversies - SCO v. AutoZone, SCO-Linux controversies - SCO v. DaimlerChrysler, SCO-Linux controversies - Other issues and conflicts, SCO-Linux controversies - SCO announces that it will not sue its own customers, SCO-Linux controversies - SCO and SGI, SCO-Linux controversies - SCO and Free Software Foundation, SCO-Linux controversies - SCO and BayStar Capital, SCO-Linux controversies - SCO and Canopy Group, SCO-Linux controversies - Microsoft funding of SCO confirmed, SCO-Linux controversies - SCOsource, SCO-Linux controversies - The Michael Davidson Email

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AIX V1, introduced in 1986, was based on System V Release 3. IBM later ported AIX to the RS/6000 platform as AIX/6000; since 1989, AIX has served as the RS/6000's primary operating system. In developing AIX, IBM and INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation (whom IBM contracted) also incorporated source code from Berkeley Software Distribution 4.2 and 4.3. In the SCO v. IBM lawsuit filed in 2003, the SCO Group alleged that (among other infractions) IBM misappropriated licensed source code from UNIX System V Release 4 for incorporation into AI ...

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AIX operating system, AIX operating system - Development, AIX operating system - Supported architectures, AIX operating system - AIX on IBM Mainframes, AIX operating system - Versions, AIX operating system - Interfaces, AIX operating system - Graphical, AIX operating system - Text-based console

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Sequent formed in 1983 when a group of seventeen engineers and executives (including Scott Gibson) left Intel after the failed iAPX 432 "mainframe on a chip" project was cancelled. One non Intel employee joined them. They started Sequent to develop a line of SMP computers, then considered one of the up-and-coming fields in computer design. Several engineers from AT&T Bell Labs also came over, bringing systems programming expertise. Sequent's first computer systems were the Balance 8000 and Balance 21000 released in 1984. The Balan ...

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Sequent Computer Systems, Sequent Computer Systems - History, Sequent Computer Systems - Detailed model descriptions, Sequent Computer Systems - Symmetry 80386-based platforms, Sequent Computer Systems - Symmetry 2000 platforms, Sequent Computer Systems - Reference

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In 1993 SCO acquired IXI Limited, a software company in Cambridge, UK, best known for its X.desktop product. In 1994 it then bought Visionware, of Leeds, UK, developers of XVision. In 1995 the development teams from IXI and Visionware were combined to form IXI Visionware, later the Client Integration Division of SCO. The Client Integration Division was relatively independent of the rest of SCO. Specialising in software to integrate Microsoft Windows and UNIX systems, it retained its own web site for some time and ported its sof ...

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Tarantella Inc., Tarantella Inc. - The Santa Cruz Operation and UNIX, Tarantella Inc. - Tarantella the product, Tarantella Inc. - Tarantella the company

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IBM - Early years. IBM's history dates back decades before the development of electronic computers – before that it developed punched card data processing equipment. It originated as the Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) Corporation, which was incorporated on June 15, 1911 in Binghamton, New York. This company was a merger of the Tabulating Machine Corporation, the Computing Scale Corporation and the International Time Recording Company. The president of the Tabulating Machine Corporation at that time was He ...

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IBM, IBM - Current business activities, IBM - Culture, IBM - Diversity and workforce issues, IBM - History, IBM - Early years, IBM - World War II, IBM - Airforce and airline projects, IBM - Successes of the 1960s, IBM - Recent history, IBM - Facts and trivia, IBM - Acquisitions, IBM - Spinoffs, IBM - Projects, IBM - BlueEyes, IBM - alphaWorks, IBM - Gaming Chips, IBM - Corporate governance

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An example of Google bombing, if a user registers many domains and all of them link to a main site with the text "... is a living legend" then searching for "living legend" on Google will return the main site higher in the ranking, even if the phrase "living legend" doesn't appear on the main site. A common means of exploiting this is through weblogs, where although the entry may disappear from the main page quickly, the short-term effects of a link can dramatically affect the ranking of a given site. Empirical results indicate that it does not take a large number of websites to achieve a Googlebomb. The effect has been achieved ...

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Google bomb, Google bomb - Background, Google bomb - Googlebombing competitions, Google bomb - Google's response, Google bomb - Googlebombing in general, Google bomb - Googlebombing as Political Activism, Google bomb - Commercial googlebombing, Google bomb - The Quixtar Google bombing example, Google bomb - Search engine bombing before Google, Google bomb - Accomplished Googlebombs, Google bomb - News Articles

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An example of Google bombing is if a user registers many domains and all of them link to a main site with the text "... is a living legend". Searching for "living legend" on Google will return the main site higher in the ranking, even if the phrase "living legend" doesn't appear on the main site. A common means of exploiting this is through weblogs, where although the entry may disappear from the main page quickly, the short-term effects of a link can dramatically affect the ranking of a given site. Empirical results indicate that it does not take a large number of websites to achieve a Googlebomb. The effect has been achieved ...

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Google bomb, Google bomb - Background, Google bomb - Googlebombing competitions, Google bomb - Google's response, Google bomb - Googlebombing in general, Google bomb - Googlebombing as Political Activism, Google bomb - Commercial googlebombing, Google bomb - The Quixtar Google bombing example, Google bomb - Search engine bombing before Google, Google bomb - Accomplished Googlebombs, Google bomb - News Articles

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IBM - Early years. IBM's history dates back decades before the development of electronic computers – before that it developed punched card data processing equipment. It originated as the Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) Corporation, which was incorporated on June 15, 1911 in Binghamton, New York. This company was a merger of the Tabulating Machine Corporation, the Computing Scale Corporation and the International Time Recording Company. The president of the Tabulating Machine Corporation at that time was He ...

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IBM, IBM - Current business activities, IBM - Culture, IBM - Diversity and workforce issues, IBM - History, IBM - Early years, IBM - World War II, IBM - Airforce and airline projects, IBM - Successes of the 1960's, IBM - Recent history, IBM - Facts and trivia, IBM - Acquisitions, IBM - Spinoffs, IBM - Projects, IBM - BlueEyes, IBM - alphaWorks, IBM - Gaming Chips, IBM - Corporate governance

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