Aug 07, 2003
According to a
report by
News.com, IBM has struck back at The SCO Group with a massive
lawsuit of its own. The lawsuit, according to the report, makes
three separate claims against the Utah-based SCO.
In part, says
News.com, IBM is claiming that SCO has given up its ability
to collect licensing fees on the software within the Linux kernel
since it is still distributing the Linux kernel (by doing so, the
company must agree to the terms of the GNU General Public License).
This claim, which has also been made by industry observers, could
prove to be the first legal test of the General Public License,
better known as the GPL.
The report also states that
IBM has included in its complaint charges of four patent violations
in four SCO software packages. In addition to those two components
of the suit, the article notes that the company is seeking
undetermined damages against SCO for claiming to have terminated
IBM's ability to distribute the AIX operating system.
For more information, including observations by
analysis, you can view the
News.com article
here.