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An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...

Open-source software has underlying source code--the instructions that programmers write--that may be freely seen, changed and redistributed. This contrasts sharply with proprietary software from ...

Microsoft will license the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a move that could impact the battle between Windows and Linux in the market for computer operating systems. According to a ...

In two weeks, The SCO Group Inc. intends to begin showing analysts where the Unix code it owns has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. The source code will be made available to parties who ...

Novell Inc. is reasserting the claim that it, and not The SCO Group Inc., owns the copyright to the Unix System V source code that has been at the heart of a protracted dispute between SCO and the ...

Unix developer The SCO Group Inc. on Monday stepped up its efforts to collect license fees from Linux users and reported a quarterly net loss as a result of legal costs associated with its ...

GitHub and JFrog announced a partnership on Wednesday that will see a deeper integration between the two companies’ platforms, giving developers and their support teams an easier way to manage both ...

coverage from the Linux gathering. New research indicates that SCO Group's lawsuit over the use of Unix source code in the Linux operating system has not discouraged developers from implementing Linux ...

The letters, dated Dec. 19, claim the ABIs that allow customers to run Unix applications over Linux are owned by SCO and are being used without the company's permission. In the letter, SCO cites more ...