IBM Ordered to Show More Code to SCO

Posted by michael on Thursday January 20, 2005 @04:27AM from the neverending-story dept.

editingwhiz writes "Bob Mims of the Salt Lake Tribune has the scoop straight from the courthouse steps: 'A federal magistrate has handed a partial victory to Utah's SCO Group, ordering computer giant IBM to turn over more of its Linux operating system-related program codes. U.S. Magistrate Brooke Wells' ruling, released just minutes after Salt Lake City's federal courthouse closed Wednesday, came in the Lindon software company's contractual suit stemming from Big Blue's alleged distribution of Linux applications purportedly tainted with SCO's proprietary Unix code.' If at all possible, SCO's going to be even more insufferable now -- it has a glimmer of hope."

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Turn over? by drafalski · 2005-01-20 04:31 · Score: 1, Redundant

Couldn't SCO have downloaded it from one of the many mirrors by now?
Linux is open-source by damicatz · 2005-01-20 04:31 · Score: 0, Redundant

Last time I checked the Linux Kernel was open-source. So why does IBM have to turn over open-source code to SCO? Are they really that lazy that they can't get it off the internet?