Empire Strikes Back?
WinInfo | at | by Mike
IBM is suddenly seeing conspiracy everywhere it looks, and if the computer giant is right, Microsoft and SCO--the owner of UNIX now attempting to exercise its intellectual property rights over companies that make Linux, which it says contains stolen UNIX source code--are at the heart of the problem. SCO, you may recall, sued IBM earlier this year for over $1 billion and then revoked IBM's UNIX license. And Microsoft, infamously, was among the first companies to license UNIX from SCO, a move many saw as a PR stunt aimed at helping SCO hurt Linux, Microsoft's arch-competitor. IBM, of course, has backed Linux as the cross-platform solution for all of its computer product lines, and the company has spent the past few years improving Linux steadily.