SCO Group Slaps IBM with $1B Suit

The SCO Group, which holds all the intellectual property rights to the Unix operating system, on Thursday filed suit against IBM for more than $1 billion in the State Court of Utah alleging that IBM made "concentrated efforts to improperly destroy the economic value of Unix, particularly Unix on Intel, to benefit IBM's new Linux services business."

The SCO filing, which eWeek predicted in an exclusive report last week, said that IBM originally entered into its Unix license agreement with AT&T in February 1985 in order to produce the AIX operating system. These agreements require that the Unix software code be held in confidence, and bar its unauthorized distribution or transfer.

As a result of IBM's unfair competition and the resulting marketplace injury, SCO is requesting damages in an amount to be proven at trial, but no less than $1 billion, together with additional damages through and after the time of trial, according to the filing.

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