Judge Orders IBM to Turn Over Code to SCO
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A federal judge in Utah has ordered IBM to turn over more programming code to The SCO Group Inc., whose lawsuit accuses IBM of illegally inserting proprietary Unix code into the Linux operating system.
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The SCO Group has been removed from the Nasdaq Stock Market because&#160;the company declared bankruptcy in September.The stock market delisted SCO and suspended trading of its shares (SCOX) at the beginning of trading on Thursday, SCO said in a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Nasdaq had told the company in September that it would be delisted, and SCO&#39;s subsequent appeal of that determination was turned down.SCO has been waging an expensive legal battle against IBM for years, claiming the company inappropriately used copyrighted SCO Unix code as part of its support of the Linux operating system. SCO suffered a major loss in that case in August when&#160;a federal judge ruled that Novell, not SCO, owned the Unix copyright. In September, the Lindon, Utah, company said the ruling might cost it US$30 million and that it had just $10.4 million in cash.In October,&#160;SCO said it had a &quot;potential&quot; buyout offer for $36 million from JGD Management, a company affiliated with investment firm York Capital Management. That deal would have to be approved by the bankruptcy court.
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SCO&#39;s decision to rethink its scoinfo.com website, which the company had floated as a way of providing an archive of legal filings, hearing dates and SCO positions on various matters, is perhaps the first sign of common sense from the company for three
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The core code for Windows is undergoing a rewrite to make it slimmer for use in a wide range of future products.
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Red Monk&#39;s Steve O&#39;Grady told LinuxInsider that SCO&#39;s decision shows a lack of understanding of what drives Groklaw. &quot;The value of Groklaw is the community itself, with people attending
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A member of the Saudi royal family and private equity group are coming to the rescue of SCO Group, a company that claims it holds the copyright to software code that developers of the Linux open-source operating system stole.
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The federal judge hearing the SCO Group's suit against IBM (NYSE: IBM) has denied IBM's motion for a partial summary judgment. If granted, the declaration likely would have ended the courtroom wrangle.
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SCO Group's faltering attack on Linux faces another threat as Big Blue files motion seeking dismissal of contract claims.
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The WS-Management spec is part of the effort to improve Sun-Microsoft system interoperability. But IBM is taking a different road.
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It has been a bad quarter for the SCO Group in more ways than one.  The company experienced legal setbacks in its suit against  IBM and Linux users. Then there was the matter of its one-time stalwart financial backer, BayStar, looking very much as though it might bolt from the relationship at one point, due to differing opinions on SCO's overall strategy.
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A gut reaction to news that hackers broke into The SCO Group&#39;s Web site and mocked its claims to own parts of the Linux operating system might be a feeling that SCO brought it on itself by trying to constrain the open source movement through its legal
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A California judge plans to order  Apple Inc  to turn over company board-meeting minutes  and records relating to stock options accounting to an  investor, according to a newspaper report on Tuesday.
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IBM has won a $972 million, seven-year services contract to help move U.K. bank Lloyds TBS to a converged voice and data network that improves connectivity for more than 2,000 national branches and 4,200 ATMs.
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While still fighting in the courts and fresh from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, The SCO Group could soon be selling its steadily-declining Unix business.In a filing Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, the Lindon, Utah-based company said it has received a "potential" $36 million offer for its Unix business from JGD Management, an umbrella business of New York-based investment firm York Capital Management. The filing has been posted on the Groklaw.com Web site, which has been tracking the legal records of the ongoing lawsuits between SCO, IBM, Novell, and others. In it, SCO reports that the offer includes money for its Unix business, litigation claims, and for litigation expenses.The bid is subject to approval by the bankruptcy court, according to the filing, and competitive bids could still be accepted from other potential buyers.SCO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization last month as it began seeking ways to stay in business amid mounting expenses and several legal rulings that have hurt its legal fights with IBM and Novell.If SCO gets out of the Unix business, it would continue solely as a mobile application platform vendor, which it has been working to become over the last several years.An SCO spokesman could not be reached for comment about the buy-out offer. A spokesman for York Capital Managament declined to comment on the matter.Three weeks ago, in an interview with Computerworld, SCO CEO Darl McBride said his company would continue to make moves to remain a viable business, despite the death knells sounded by some critics.According to the terms of the York offer, approval of the deal is required from the bankruptcy court by Nov. 9, with the transaction needing to be completed by Dec. 7.Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate
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Ziff Davis - In its ongoing war with SCO over Linux and Unix IP, IBM is trying a new tactic: declaring that SCO has no rights over its "homegrown" Unix code.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM is making it easier to utilize its patented intellectual property to implement nearly 200 standards in SOA, Web services, security, and other spaces. Under a pledge issued by the company Wednesday, IBM is granting universal and perpetual access to intellectual property that might be necessary to implement standards designed to make software interoperable. IBM will not assert any patent rights to its technologies featured in these standards. The company believes its move in this space is the largest of its kind. "These are what I could call the core infrastructure standards that people now use around such things as SOA," said Bob Sutor, IBM vice president of open source and standards. Web 2.0 applications also could be developed, for example. The company seeks to spur development of software that leverages these standards. Among the technologies included on IBM's list, accessible here, are various standards pertaining to SOAP, SAML, XML Schema, and Service Component Architecture. WS-* specifications are featured as well. IBM was not the sole developer of many of these standards, which are often under the jurisdiction of organizations like the World Wide Web Consortium and OASIS. But the company did contribute to their development. IBM's technology previously could be applied on a royalty-free basis when used in conjunction with the standards. But developers and customers had to go through a royalty-free licensing process, which involved filling out forms. "What we decided to do was make it simpler for people to implement all of them," Sutor said. IBM has provided a non-assertion statement that says people are free to use any of its patents needed to implement the standards, provided they do not sue IBM or anyone else over use of their own patents involved in implementing the standards. With the new setup, an open-source developer, for example, does not have to spend time getting licenses from IBM. Sutor acknowledged, though, that some implementers have simply chosen not to get the licenses anyway. IBM has about 40,000 patents. Any of these that apply can be used when deploying the standards. With IBM's effort, users have one less thing to be concerned about, said analyst Michael Goulde, of Forrester Research. "Nobody's going to change what they're doing. I think they're just going to be able to do it with one less concern over their head," Goulde said. Hopefully, other vendors, such as Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, will be inspired to do what IBM has done, said Goulde.Â  But IBM drew criticism from Sun's Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at the company, in a response posted on Bob Sutor's own blog. "Nice move, Bob, congratulations," Phipps said. "One question, though. Why did you frame this in terms of 'necessary claims?' That leaves a developer wondering if they have done the right things in their code to avoid a patent claim against them." "It leaves them (potentially) to research IBM's patent portfolio in order to get security that the approach they have taken is unavoidably necessary. And it leaves them fearful (reasonably or not) of action against them if they decide to partner with a company or project of which IBM does not approve (the same way the police can always find a law you broke if they want to nail you)," Phipps said. Sun has had equivalent patent pledges but did not limit usage to "essential claims," Phipps said. Microsoft did not provide a response in time for publication of this article. In 2005, IBM opened up access to 500 patents to open-source developers. Patent access also was opened up to health care and education professionals that year.
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) was ordered by a European Union court to change its business practices and immediately