Linux founder Linus Torvalds says he agrees with some criticisms of SCO but calls for restraint in the tumult. SCO's chief, meanwhile, says legal action against Torvalds is unlikely.
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Novell on Wednesday said it never transferred the copyrights and patents of Unix System V when it sold the software to SCO in 1995. SCO claims all Unix flavors in use today are based on Unix System V, and that it owns the software code and licensing rights to that software.
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The Apache Software Foundation unveils a new version of its market-leading Web server software, primarily to patch previously undisclosed security vulnerabilities.
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Opposition mounts to SCO Group's campaign against Linux, but the company says its Unix licensing initiative led to its first-ever profit and sees revenue growth ahead.
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The country's president adds to a growing foreign-relations headache for Microsoft with a speech in which he advocates broader adoption of open-source software.
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The company, which makes a consumer-friendly version of the Linux operating system, seeks to distance itself from the legal tumult over Linux.
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FootNotes reports that the GNOME release team has posted an almost-final new modules list for GNOME 2.4
SuSE and SCO Group issue bullish statements about their business prospects, even though the estranged business partners sit on opposite sides of the Linux fence.
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The German city decides to switch a significant proportion of its computers from Windows to the open-source operating system, despite an aggressive pitch from Microsoft.
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Opposition to SCO Group's campaign against Linux continues to mount, but SCO's Unix licensing initiative has paid off in the company's first-ever profit.
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Big Blue brings its Power4+ processor to the low end of its Unix server line, making the new chip an option across the company's entire line.
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The company, embroiled in a high-profile dispute over Unix intellectual property, reports net income of $4.5 million on revenue of $21.4 million for the second quarter.
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MySQL plans to include enterprise-level technology from SAP in its own open source database, after announcing Tuesday the acquisition of rights to SAP's database, SAP DB.
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The second of four companies to own rights to Unix is expected to challenge rights infringement claims that the current owner of those rights, SCO Group, is making against Linux.
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SCO's legitimate goal--to make money from its intellectual property--has been overshadowed by its publicity-laden plot to raise its visibility and, hence, acquisition value.
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The Debian Project has enhanced their bugs database
Saw over at 3DChips that the Inquirer has a news story on a Playstation 2 Linux cluster.
Sun Microsystems has kick-started a low-cost computing effort with new blade servers and deepened partnerships with Oracle and Linux vendor Red Hat. Also touting a blade initiative, IBM last week unveiled prepackaged blade clusters, which leverage its 1350 Linux/Intel cluster technology on its eServer BladeCenter blade servers. BladeCenter can hold as many as 84 blades per rack.
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MandrakeClub has expanded their Software repository:
IBM has told vnunet.com that SCO cannot carry out its threat to revoke its Unix licence on 13 June.
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