SCO Finally Reveals Allegedly Infringing Code
In a move likely to come as something of a relief to those following the long-running
dispute between IBM and SCO Group over the alleged unauthorised inclusion of
Unix code in Linux, the latter firm has finally unveiled the areas in which
it believes that its patents have been infringed. After two and a half years of vague threats, SCO on Friday filed documents
with the US District Court in Utah identifying 217 areas in which it believes
that its intellectual property has been unlawfully used by IBM. "Some of these wrongful disclosures include areas such as an entire file
management system; others are communications by IBM personnel working on Linux
that resulted in enhancing Linux functionality by disclosing a method or concept
from Unix technology," SCO revealed last week. A final report on the alleged abuses is set to be published on December 22. .
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