UNIX D-Day arrives for IBM - no more UNIX from IBM?
WinInfo | at | by Mike
With Friday's deadline in the SCO lawsuit come and gone, computer giant IBM faces an uncertain fate Monday, with UNIX copyright owner SCO threatening to rescind IBM's UNIX license, halting sales of AIX, IBM's UNIX-based operating system. SCO, as I'm sure you recall, sued IBM earlier this year, charging the company with illegally distributing stolen UNIX code in Linux, an open source operating system that closely resembles and works like UNIX. SCO says this violates its UNIX license, and the company is seeking $1 billion in damages.