Caldera Systems Inc. / Hewlett-Packard / UNIX System Laboratories Inc. / AutoZone / X 1990 19 96 A Unix System Laboratories / Red Hat Inc. / Unix Code / Univel / Novell UNIX Systems Group / Sequent / IBM / SuSE / AT&T / Title Bell Labs / Bell Labs / MontaVista Software / Open Source Development Labs / BayStar Capital / Bell Laboratories / Bank of America / DaimlerChrysler / Intel / Microsoft / Other Vendors Respond / The Open Group / SCO Group / /
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USD / / /
Event
Funding / Legal Issues / Business Partnership / M&A / Company Expansion / Reorganization / Product Issues / Name Change / /
Facility
U.S. District Court / /
IndustryTerm
copyright law / Software end users / false advertising / federal law preemption / software industry participants / software assets / software program / software community / system software program / software users / software vendors / software license / source software / software / software programs / software industry / software programmers / /
OperatingSystem
UNIX / AIX / BSD / SCO OpenServer / Linux / Unix System / UNIXWare / UNIX System V / /
Organization
Marquette University Law School / UC Berkeley / U.S. District Court / Bell Lab / Milwaukee School of Engineering / UN Court / /
Person
Dale Kimball / Eric Goldman / /
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open source programmer / Assistant Professor / Judge / /
The Battle Over UNIX: SCO v. Linux, AIX and the Open Source Community By Michael Faulkner* and Eric Goldman** Draft of June 14, 2004 In the past year, the battle over UNIX has generated significant litigation and lots of