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| DATE | 2003-06-04 |
| FROM | From: "Inker, Evan"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] SCO hit by legal action in Germany
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Ok, now theirs reason to celebrate.....
SCO hit by legal action in Germany
The company has shut down its German subsidiary's Web site
By John Blau, IDG News Service
JUNE 04, 2003
The German subsidiary of The SCO Group Inc. has temporarily shut down its
Web site after a local Linux user group received a restraining court order
against the U.S. software group. But the company plans to reactivate the
site shortly.
"We deactivated our Web site on Friday while we continue to scan for any
statements or references to Linux," said Hans Bayer, managing director of
SCO GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. "We decided to wait for the new corporate
design that the parent company is preparing for all its Web sites worldwide
before we reactivate ours."
On May 23, lawyers for LinuxTag e.V., an association representing largely
Linux program developers, told SCO's German subsidiary to retract its claims
regarding ownership of Linux kernel code by May 30 or make its evidence
public (see story).
With its unsubstantiated claims, SCO is hurting competitors, intimidating
Linux customers and inflicting damage on the reputation of Linux as an open
platform, said LinuxTag spokesman Andreas Gebhard. "We told SCO flat out
they must stop claiming that the standard Linux kernel violates its
copyrights if they can't prove it."
The German subsidiary is consulting with its lawyers about the Web site and
whether it should go to court with LinuxTag, Bayer said. "We're considering
what the next sensible step should be," he said, adding that nowhere in
Europe is the Linux community as well organized and vocal than in Germany.
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