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Article: Red Hat Sues SCO Group over Statements about Linux Code.
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- August 5, 2003
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By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 5--An industry dispute over the origins of the Linux operating system escalated on Monday as Red Hat Software sued SCO Group for making allegedly untrue claims that Red Hat's version of Linux contains code stolen from SCO.
SCO, based in Lindon, Utah, contends that IBM and others illegally contributed SCO's copyrighted Unix code into Linux versions 2.4 and 2.5. It has filed a $3 billion lawsuit against IBM and on July 21 said it would re...uire enterprise Linux users to pay license fees.
Red Hat, a major distributor of Linux software based in Raleigh, ...