Microsoft will license the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a move that could impact the battle between Windows and Linux in the market for computer operating systems. According to a ...

The software maker's agreement to license Unix lends weight to SCO Group's legal claims of copyright violation and helps Microsoft do battle with Linux. The software maker's agreement to license Unix ...

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 ...

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 ...

The SCO Group is taking its case against the Linux operating system and IBM on the road. Last week, the company began showing code to U.S. analysts that, it claims, proves that the source code to the ...

A new Internet worm designed to attack a common flaw in Unix systems has been confirmed dead, but security experts are warning that the self-propagating worm could be the next Code Red. The X.C worm ...

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Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

As it promised to do two weeks ago, The SCO Group Inc. has revealed to several industry analysts some of the Linux source code that it claims was illegally copied from Unix. But opinions vary on what ...

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 ...

Utah-based SCO Group Monday said it has revoked the right of IBM Corp. to sell two versions of the Unix operating system. SCO also said it is upping the ante in its lawsuit against IBM, seeking up to ...

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