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The SCO Group (often referred to SCO and later called The TSG Group) was an American software company in existence from 2002 to 2012 that became known for owning Unix operating system assets that had belonged to the Santa Cruz Operation (the original SCO), including the UnixWare and OpenServer technologies, and then, under CEO Darl McBride, pursuing a series of high-profile legal battles known ...
Commemorative plaque celebrating twenty years in business for Santa Cruz Operation, listing important milestones along the way. The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (usually known as SCO, [1] pronounced either as individual letters or as a word) was an American software company, based in Santa Cruz, California, that was best known for selling three Unix operating system variants for Intel x86 ...
In response, on Monday, August 13, SCO stock fell over 70%, to 44 cents a share. [18] September 2007 The trial in SCO v. Novell was due to start on Monday September 17, in order to determine how much money SCO owed Novell. On September 14, SCO Group filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy ...
Following several adverse rulings issued by the United States District Court in Utah, SCO's stock value dropped to under $1. On April 27, 2007, NASDAQ served notice that the company would be delisted if SCO's stock price did not increase above $1 for a minimum of 10 consecutive days over the course of 180 business days, ending October 22, 2007. [8]
SCO claims AutoZone violated SCO's copyrights by using Linux. The suit was stayed pending the resolution of the IBM, Red Hat and Novell cases. On September 26, 2008, Judge Robert C. Jones lifted the stay, effective December 31, 2008. [54] He initially scheduled discovery for April 9, 2010. [55] SCO filed an amended complaint on August 14, 2009.
SCO v. Novell was a United States lawsuit in which the software company The SCO Group (SCO), claimed ownership of the source code for the Unix operating system. SCO sought to have the court declare that SCO owned the rights to the Unix code, including the copyrights, and that Novell had committed slander of title by asserting a rival claim to ownership of the Unix copyrights.
This effective vagueness of The SCO Group's claims have raised the suspicions of all observers, except for those most obviously hostile to Linux. As a result, many observers suspect that this lawsuit is an attempt to pump up The SCO Group's stock before major stockholders (e.g., corporate officers, the Canopy Group) sell stock at an inflated price.
Beginning in 2003, SCO Group has initiated a number of lawsuits and claims that Linux infringed SCO's copyrights and that users and vendors of Linux should be held accountable for these infringements. Some statements even suggest that users of Linux could expect legal action from The SCO Group. Red Hat is a long time Linux vendor.