SCO-IBM legal hearing postponed
A hearing to discuss two issues in the legal spat over Linux has been delayed until September.
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A hearing has been delayed until Sept. 15 to address two significant issues in a legal tussle between the SCO Group and IBM over Linux and Unix, according to the U.S. District Court in Utah.
The hearing, which had been scheduled for Aug. 4, will address IBM's motion to dismiss SCO's suit and SCO's motion to put on hold an IBM effort to win a declaration that it's not infringing SCO copyrights. SCO sued IBM in 2003, alleging Big Blue violated its Unix contract with SCO by moving proprietary technology from proprietary Unix to open-source Linux.