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Zombie ‘who owns #Unix?’ #lawsuit comes alive again
#SCO's legal successor #Xinuos asks legal brains to let it bite IBM over ancient license and #copyright claims
https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/06/zombie-who-owns-unix-lawsuit-comes-alive-again/5266761 -
#Unix #copyright code infringement #lawsuit is back from the dead — #IBM still under fire from #Xinuos over 2003-era bytes
Xinuos (formerly #SCO) has repeatedly and dramatically taken IBM to court, claiming the defendant misused SCO-owned #sourcecode from the collaborative effort in its AIX and z/OS products, as well as Linux. Many battles have been fought over who owns the "Unix" name, what code IBM put in Linux, and even FreeBSD.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/unix-copyright-code-infringement-lawsuit-is-back-from-the-dead-ibm-still-under-fire-from-xinuos-about-2003-era-bytes -
Xinuos hat den Geist der SCO-Klage gegen IBM wiederbelebt. Ein Gericht auf den US Virgin Islands wäre zwar zuständig, schickt den Fall aber nach New York.
SCO v. IBM: Unendlicher Rechtsstreit zieht nach New York -
Xinuos is the company that purchased the remnants of the SCO Group in 2011. The SCO Group, in turn, is a company most famous not for its actual products but for its litigation against IBM and Linux. That litigation began in 2003—partially funded by a very different M$, only 5 years after the leak of the Halloween documents in which M$ acknowledged the "long-term viability" of OSS and discussed strategies to choke it out of the market. (01/04/2021)
[[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/xinuos-finishes-picking-up-scos-mantle-by-suing-red-hat-and-ibm/]]
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Back in university, my introduction to OS programming was using a nice dummy OS that had the name #XINU (Xinu Is Not Unix, and also UNIX backwards. The best recursive acronym I have come to see so far).
However it seems that Caldera^WSCO^WTSG Group spun off a new company to deal with business as opposed to litigation. And that company is named: #XinuOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinuos