Samstag, 8. März 2003

Fire in the Bazaar: SCO v. IBM. The SCO Group has fired the first broadside in an intellectual property war that could shake the foundations of Linux, one of the world's most widely used free operating systems. In a $1 billion lawsuit filed on March 7th against IBM, SCO asserts that Big Blue "made concentrated efforts to improperly destroy the economic value of UNIX, particularly UNIX on Intel, to benefit IBM's new Linux services business." The complaint, filed in a Utah state court, accuses IBM of misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, breach of contract, and tortious interference with SCO's business. SCO is basing its action on intellectual property rights it claims it acquired when it bought UNIX System V from A. T. & T. in 1995. [kuro5hin.org] 2:06:05 PM    comment []

Developers Back IBM in Unix Suit. Open-source developers rally behind IBM after learning that SCO Group, formerly Caldera Systems, is suing IBM for disclosure of SCO's intellectual property in the form of Unix code. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 1:58:35 PM    comment []

A 3D Animation of Kernel Source Development. fixit! writes "Have a look at this cool 3D animation of the Linux kernel source. This is how a source browser should look like!" [Slashdot] 1:57:54 PM    comment []

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