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SCO warns Linux may be 'illegal'

Neowin · May 15, 2003 13:40 EDT · Hot! with 1 comment

Thanks leebobs

SCO, the owner of the Unix operating system, has announced that it considers 'Linux ... an unauthorised derivative of UNIX' and has warned commercial users of Linux that they may be legally liable for its use. The company has also declared that it is suspending all future sales of its own version of Linux until the matter concerning copyright is resolved.

This bombshell from SCO follows its recent lawsuit against IBM which alleges that Big Blue unlawfully passed proprietary Unix code to the Linux community.

The company has sent a letter to Linux customers warning them of their actions and promising to 'take all actions necessary to stop the ongoing violation of our intellectual property or other rights'.

Read more.. has the rest of the story.

View: Interview with SCO's Chris Sontag regarding this issue.