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IBM Adds SCO Counterclaim Charging Copyright Infringement

Posted by michael on Friday September 26, 2003 @07:13AM from the both-barrels dept.

linuxjack55 writes "According to Yahoo! Finance, IBM has filed yet another counterclaim against SCO, this time claiming that SCO 'infringed IBM's copyrights by distributing IBM's contributions to Linux after SCO had violated its Linux license by claiming a copyright on parts of Linux.' Like it or not, it looks like the GPL is going to get a full vetting in this case. It is, however, nice to know that IBM's fire-breathing legion of IP lawyers is on the side of the GPL."

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Re:In soviet Russia by WindBourne · 2003-09-26 07:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I think that is happening all over.

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I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Re:In soviet Russia by Entrope · 2003-09-26 08:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I told my officemate (born in Russia, lived there most of his life) about IBM's "new" counterclaim and the claim by the same spokesman that SCO owns C++. He said that in Soviet Russia, there was a slogan to demonstrate that everything originally came from their country: "Russia is the motherland of the elephant." I think Darl McBride & Co. need a similar slogan: "SCO is the inventor of the elephant."