Companies outside the United States that use Linux now face the threat of legal action from the SCO Group, following the announcement Wednesday that SCO's licenses are available worldwide. SCO's Linux ...

Software maker SCO Group fired back at Linux leader Red Hat on Tuesday and revealed steep licensing prices for Linux users who want to steer clear of the company's legal wrangle with the open-source ...

General Public License governing heart of popular open-source OS is being updated to deal with patents, other issues. But it'll be a struggle. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

As AI avatars of deceased people become more lifelike, and thus valuable to advertisers, tech companies are unlikely to say no to monetisation offers. The most commonly cited concerns were job losses ...

One day after being sued by Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. for “unfair and deceptive actions” relating to its claims about intellectual property violations in the Linux source code, The SCO Group Inc.

The SCO Group is preparing a new Linux licensing program that it claims will allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without fear of litigation. The SCO Group is preparing a new ...

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Open source advocates on Monday blasted a Linux licensing scheme that The SCO Group is proposing to address alleged copyright violations in the Linux operating system. SCO Chief Executive Officer Darl ...

The snowballing success of Linux has attracted involvement from all corners of the computing realm--but the breadth of that interest is expected to complicate a revision of the software's legal ...