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Article: SCO Seeks To Derail Red Hat Suit against It.
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- Client Server News
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Controversy? What Controversy?
The SCO Group has asked the District Court in Delaware, where Red Hat is suing SCO, to throw Red Hat's suit out on its ear as groundless.
Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulek called the SCO move a "delaying tactic" even though his own suit isn't likely to hit court for 18 months yet.
Red Hat wants the security blanket of a declaratory judgment from the court that it hasn't infringed any of SCO's IP or misappropriated any of SCO's trade secrets and that SCO's copyrights and trade secrets are unenforceable against Linux.
It wants SCO enjoined from publicly saying that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of SCO's ...