While I used Unix in college (early 1980’s), it wasn’t really useful for real-time needs. Timesharing has its applications, but controlling a bunch of relays and contactors wasn’t one of ...

But SCO has recently alleged that parts of the Unix source code have been copied into Linux, and it is seeking fees from Linux users.In March, SCO sued IBM for $1 billion, alleging that Big Blue ...

Other experts note that the code in question may have originated in collaborative, “open-source” code-writing efforts and then later been integrated into SCO’s version of Unix.

SCO continues to keep the Unix System V source code under wraps, a standard tactic in many intellectual property disputes. After all, you wouldn’t prove your secrets have been stolen by ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The dispute between SCO and IBM over allegations that Big Blue stole Unix code and put it into Linux is starting to get ugly. Not ...

SCO Group says copyrighted code has made its way into Linux, the popular open-source OS. If true, the open-source community could find its hard-won gains threatened.

In this book excerpt from The Art of UNIX Programming, author Eric S. Raymond discusses the philosophy of Unix, what it got right, and what it got wrong.

As it promised to do two weeks ago, The SCO Group Inc. has revealed to several industry analysts some of the Linux source code that it claims was illegally copied from Unix.

A new Internet worm designed to attack a common flaw in Unix systems has been confirmed dead, but security experts are warning that the self-propagating worm could be the next Code Red. The X.C ...

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 ...