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Article: Red Hat Sues SCO Group over 'Deceptive Campaign'.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- August 5, 2003
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By Chris Gaither, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 5--SAN FRANCISCO--The open-source software movement yesterday launched a counterstrike against a growing threat to Linux, as Red Hat Inc. sued the company that claims it owns substantial parts of the code for the freely distributed operating system.
Red Hat, the largest company selling exclusively open-source software, sued SCO Group Inc. in federal court in Delaware, accusing the Utah software concern of waging "an unfair, untrue, and deceptive campaign" to scare customers considering purchases of Red Hat software.
Red Hat, based in Raleigh, N.C., also pledged $1 ...