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http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,90205,00.html

AT&T Trips Up SCO

By FRANK HAYES
FEBRUARY 16, 2004

   This is the week. On Nov. 18, 2003, The SCO Group announced that it 
would sue some corporate Linux user within 90 days. That put the 
deadline at Monday, Feb. 16. Has SCO sued? I don't know -- I'm 
writing this a few days before that deadline, and my time machine is 
in the shop, so you'll have to go to Computerworld.com for the latest 
news. (Editor's note: No new legal actions have been announced as yet 
this week.)

But regardless of whether SCO has already sued a user or is just 
running a little behind schedule, winning any Linux lawsuits may have 
just gotten a lot harder for SCO.

Who said so? AT&T -- in 1985.

...........

In other words, AT&T never intended for Unix licensees to give up 
ownership of code they added to their versions of Unix. That was 
never part of the deal. And the deal AT&T cut is the one SCO has to 
live with -- even 19 years later. That's how contracts work.

Of the million lines of Linux code that SCO claims IBM hijacked from 
Unix, SCO hasn't identified a single line that came from the original 
Unix source code. It was all created by IBM. According to AT&T in 
1985, that means it's IBM's to keep -- or give away. And SCO's theory 
that it owns Linux code appears to be kaput.