I have stopped working on this document. It reflects the situation roughly in October 2003. Since then, I have become convinced that SCO's claims are bogus, and that they are acting either dishonestly or with a staggering lack of understanding. There's nothing I can do to address either of these issues.
I have written a detailed analysis of SCO's attacks against free software, notably IBM and Linux. On this site, you'll find my comments about the following topics:
Rebuttal of SCO's complaint about IBM
SCO's letter to Linux customers
SCO Australia's input
SCO announces termination of IBM's UNIX license
Robert Cringely's article about the SCO affair
SCO's “evidence” of copying betweeen Linux and
UnixWare
SCO is sued in Poland
SCO's contribution to Linux SMP development
Interview with Chris Sontag in Byte, 16 June 2003
SCO's “evidence” of copying, part 2 (with source),
20 August 2003
The funny side of the affair
Significant corrections to these pages
I'm not the only person to have discussed this matter, of course. I find the following links of interest. From time to time I may store some on this site, but none of them my own work.
SCO home page
SCO's complaint against IBM.
Eric Raymond's position paper
Éric Lévénez's UNIX family tree
SCO's corruption of the
family tree.
Caldera's release of “Ancient UNIX” under a BSD-style license
SCO's own contribution to Linux SMP code.
SCO stock price
AUUG's reaction to the affair.
Novell's letter to
SCO
Linuxtag's legal action
against SCO in Germany
EEtimes article about
“proof” of System V code in Linux.
Robert Cringely's article
on the subject.
SCO's announcement of the
termination of IBM's AIX license.
Byte magazine's interview with
Chris Sontag, SCO's Senior Vice President. I have written an analysis of this interview.
The Open Group's statement about the ownership of UNIX.
Forbes article What SCO Wants,
SCO Gets.
Stefan Hildemann also looked at the code and commented. Due to
an error on the part of the lawyers, he did not sign an NDA. Here's an English version.
Ian Lance Taylor looked at
the offending code.
Robert Cringely finds the
source of some of the code.
The Open Group on SCO's claims to UNIX
Dennis Ritchie maintains an overview of
UNIX licenses.
TWikIWeThey overview page
SCO's own Enterprise Grade Linux.
Richard
Stallman speaks
Claims that SCO copied Linux
code into UnixWare.
Con Zymaris on
the affair.
Sydney Morning Herald
article on Con Zymaris' matrix.
SCO's VP of Engineering bailing?
More arguments for SCO's own
inclusion of UNIX code in Linux
Interview with Linus
Torvalds.
SCO announces that they're
forcing UNIX source code onto Linux users and demanding a license fee for it.
Australian Trades
Practices Act
Summary of the Australian Trades Practices
Act
No go SCO, say
Linux users
Red Hat files complaint
against SCO. Here's a PDF version.
SCO's licensing prices
Groklaw's web log.
SCOSUCKS.COM
SCO executives benefit from inflated stock
price
Is there Linux code in SCO? Join the SCO code bounty
hunt and find out.
The Inquirer reports on IBM's countersuit.
Transcript of IBM's countersuit.
Heise: “SCO threatens to
kill Open Source” (German).
Heise: SCO vs. Linux: /* Der
Beweis und seine Folgen */
Heise: Know yourself
(German)
NewsNow SCO page
Eric Raymond's Open Letter to Darl
McBride
Eric Raymond condemns DoS
attack against SCO
Eric Raymond's detailed rebuttal of
the SCO complaint
AUUG
2003 panel on SCO, 3 September 2003.
SCO admits it doesn't know where their
code examples come from
Darl McBride's Letter
to the Open Source Community.
Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens reply to Darl McBride.
Eben Moglen on
SCO's tactics and understanding.
HP offers to indemnify
customers
IBM extends countersuit
BayStar invests in SCO
SCO subpoenas open source leaders
Why SCO will soon be going after BSD
Bob Young's Open Letter
to Darl McBride
Main SCO page Greg's home page Greg's diary
