Decades-old UNIX ownership lawsuit revived as Xinuos pursues new claims against IBM
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Simon Sharwood
Summary
The long-running legal dispute over UNIX ownership has been revived, with SCO's legal successor Xinuos bringing new claims against IBM. The case dates back to 2003 and stems from the 1998 "Project Monterey" alliance between IBM, Santa Cruz Operation, Intel, and Sequent to create a unified multi-processor UNIX version. The article provides background on this decades-old intellectual property battle that also has implications for Linux.
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· 3 pulledThe ancient dispute over ownership of UNIX, and perhaps Linux too, has returned to court. Again.
As The Register has explained many, many, times since this matter first went to court in 2003...
Those two companies, plus Intel and Sequent, created 'Project Monterey' – an effort to create a unified version of UNIX that could run on multiple processors.
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