p2pnet - rss feed: SCO boosts IBM claim to $5 bil
SCO Group has added two more claims of copyright infringement to its lawsuit against IBM, bringing potential damages to $5 billion.
SCO, recently on the receiving end of the Net’s worst-ever e-bug attack, says IBM revealed trade secrets, “by using parts of the Unix operating system, which SCO claims to own, in software that eventually wound up in Linux, the operating system that can be used and modified freely,” , says a Reuters report here, going on:
“In the latest volley, SCO is claiming in two counts that IBM had infringed on its copyright to Unix, which is the core issue in the dispute over whether Linux contains copyrighted software code. U.S. Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells in Salt Lake City, Utah, is expected to rule within a week whether SCO will be allowed to add the new claims to its ongoing lawsuit against the world’s largest computer company.”
IBM has countersued SCO, which has also threatened to sue businesses using Linux unless they pay a license fee. SCO also faces lawsuits from other Linux-related businesses, adds the story.
