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It says its $1 billion lawsuit will be costly and may have unintended effects that may harm their business: legal fees may rise greatly, revenue from joint ventures with IBM and partners may fall, IBM may have customers shun SCO products. [CNET News.com]
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The company says its billion-dollar lawsuit alleging that IBM misappropriated trade secrets will be costly and could have other consequences. A CNET article by Stephen Shankland, Staff Writer, CNET News. Published on March 31, 2003 3:53 PM PST.
March 31, 2003 3:53 PM PST
SCO warns of IBM lawsuit risks
SCO Group warned in a regulatory filing that its billion-dollar lawsuit alleging that IBM misappropriated trade secrets will be costly and could alienate others in the computing industry.
"Unintended consequences of our lawsuit against IBM
All it would take is one unnoticed rogue uploader to open a whole project with millions of users to significant legal trouble. In this way, SCO has done the Linux community a favor by showing a hole in the armor. [NewsFactor Network]
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Recent moves compromise SCO mission as software firm; place law firm in position of growing power to set agenda for SCO compensation. Summary with forum comments. [LWN: Linux Weekly News]
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Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business
[Posted November 20, 2003 by corbet]
at the Gartner Group. " The latest share
issue will dilute shareholders' investments about 3.5 percent. It comes on
top of a previously announced arrangement giving Boies, Schiller & Flexner
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SEC filing shows: SCO has already lost business from its loyal customer base; expects to lose more. [The Register]
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SCO admits: Linux jihad is destroying our business
, 18th November 2003 11:16 GMT
By law, companies must provide apocalyptic forward-looking scenarios in their SEC filings. They need to show they've thought of everything, to fend off potential class action suits just in case the sky really does
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By Charles Cooper. The deeply flawed lawsuit filed against IBM by SCO is a stalking-horse for a deeper struggle between proprietary and open-source software. [CNET News.com]
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CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the lawsuit filed against IBM by SCO is a stalking-horse for a deeper struggle between proprietary and open-source software. A CNET article by Charles Cooper. Published on March 28, 2003 4:00 AM PST.
March 28, 2003 4:00 AM PST
Earlier this month, SCO Group sued IBM for allegedly misappropriating SCO's Unix technology and then building it into Linux. The lawyers want to project an image of a small company's valiant battle to protect its own intellectual property against an unscrupulous bully.