Latest SCO Legal Adventures

Posted by Bill Bradford on Jun 16, 2003

I haven’t had much coverage of this issue, but today SCO terminated IBM’s right to use or distribute AIX, and is also claiming that most other UNIX variants are in violation of their IP rights as well. According to SCO’s Chris Sontag, “Sun is clean” – in other words, they acquired a permanent license from AT&T for System V UNIX before SCO acquired the technology.

One response to “Latest SCO Legal Adventures”

  1. Bill Bradford says:
    20/06/03 at 12:13 am

    Sun purchased a “permanent” UNIX-and-related-IP-rights license from AT&T years and years ago.

    See this NEWS.COM article for more information, and statements from McNealy.