SCO increases heat on IBM
SCO increases heat on IBM
The SCO Group has another claim against IBM granted by a judge in Utah, U.S.A., which now means their overall lawsuit is worth $5 billion in damages.
Despite SCO dropping a claim of misappropriated trade secrets, they added one of copyright infringement. This has now taken the lawsuit from $3 billion to $5 billion.
Their argument is based on IBM's alleged illegal movement of Unix intellectual property into Linux, which was meant to be private. Linux is open-source software that can be altered in any way, but Unix is closed and proprietary.
SCO seeks $1 billion in damages for unfair competition and 1$ billion for each of four other allegations.
SCO, which licenced Unix to IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphic and many others, claims it has the copyright to the operating system.
The group is also suing Novell over its claims that it still owns Unix copyrights and Red Hat, the leading seller of Linux, are seeking a declaration that they have violated SCO's copyrights and trade secrets.
SCO is also looking to sue Linux users also.
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