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Investors bail on SCO after gutting

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Dec 5, 20061 min

Investors have fled SCO Group’s stock after a federal judge gutted its lawsuit against IBM, reports Forbes.com.

Last Thursday, the judge said SCO had provided no evidence to support its claim that IBM took code from Unix, which SCO claims to have some copyrights, and added it to Linux, Forbes.com reports.

The Linux distro firms must be cheering, and Microsoft is kind of over the whole dirty mess in its own way with its deal with Novell to embrace Linux, but is this long-running land grab at all over? Has it run its legal course now?

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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