The SCO Group lawsuit against IBM for copyright infringement of the UNIX System V source code is not going away. In fact, it gets more interesting with each passing week. On July 21, Darl McBride, SCO ...

An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...

Files produced by IBM back up SCO's claims Big Blue "improperly contributed code to Linux," the Unix seller said in a memorandum to a US court last week. In a strongly worded discovery submission to ...

The SCO Group Inc. fired another shot across the bows of corporate Linux users last month, sending a letter to some Fortune 1,000 companies contending that their use of the open-source operating ...

Even as it continues to battle for Unix ownership in court, the SCO Group plans to auction off most all of its Unix assets, including “certain Unix System V software products and related services,” ...

In two weeks, The SCO Group Inc. intends to begin showing analysts where the Unix code it owns has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. The source code will be made available to parties who ...

In a statement released Monday, the Lindon, Utah-based company--which is embroiled in a legal battle with IBM over Linux--said it has received copyrights to Unix and will enforce its ownership of the ...

SCO Group, inheritor of the intellectual property for the Unix operating system, sues IBM for more than $1 billion. Analysts say the move is a desperate one. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Ever wonder about how Unix got started, not to mention all the twists and turns it took along the way? Here are some milestones of the operating system’s four-decade-long history. 1956 A U.S.