SCO pulls Sequent's Unix license, to stop IBM
C|Net | at | by Mike
The SCO Group on Wednesday terminated its Unix System V software contract with IBM subsidiary Sequent, potentially curtailing the company's ability to market its Unix-based Dynix/ptx operating system. SCO, owner of several key copyrights related to the Unix operating system, has been aggressively defending its intellectual property holdings connected to the software and filed a $3 billion lawsuit against IBM earlier this year. The suit claims that IBM has committed trade secret theft and breach of contract for allegedly copying proprietary Unix source code into its Linux-based products.