Ten months after launching its lawsuit against IBM Corp., The SCO Group Inc. has finally provided Big Blue with a list of files and individual code samples that, it claims, violate its intellectual property rights. The information was sent to IBM on Monday in response to a December order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, said Blake Stowell, an SCO spokesman. IBM confirmed that it had received documents from SCO on Tuesday, postmarked Jan. 12, but declined to provide details about their contents or say whether or not they appeared to satisfy the court"s order.
In March, SCO launched a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against IBM, claiming that the computer giant had illegally contributed SCO"s intellectual property to Linux. Since then, SCO has maintained that Linux includes software that has been both directly copied and illegally derived from its Unix source code, but the Lindon, Utah, company has been reluctant to provide examples of the alleged copyright violations. Monday"s response included no examples of copyright violations, Stowell said. "We"ve not introduced copyright infringement as part of our case with IBM. We"ve tried to make it clear that it"s a contract issue."