A decades-old lawsuit concerning Unix copyright infringement has resurfaced, with Xinuos again targeting IBM. The legal battle, which began in 2003, centers on claims that IBM misused copyrighted source code from a past collaboration on an Itanium Unix variant in its AIX, z/OS, and Linux products. Xinuos, having acquired the assets of Santa Cruz Operations (SCO), refiled a lawsuit in 2021, alleging significant market damage. While an antitrust claim related to IBM's acquisition of Red Hat was dropped, Xinuos is pursuing the copyright infringement aspect, arguing a lower court erred in dismissing it as time-barred. AI
RANK_REASON This is a legal dispute over past software licensing and copyright, not a new product release or core AI research.
Read on Mastodon — fosstodon.org →
- FreeBSD
- IBM
- Linux
- Red Hat
- Santa Cruz Operations
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Unix
- Xinuos
- z/OS
- Itanium
AI-generated summary · Google Gemini · from 2 sources. How we write summaries →