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Red Hat Takes Aim at Infringement Claims Red Hat Takes Aim at Infringement Claims: Press Release, 2 announcements: firm filed formal complaint against SCO; established Open Source Now Fund to cover legal costs of infringement claims against firms and non-profit organizations with efforts under GPL, $1 million. [Red Hat] (Red Hat) http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2003/press_sco.html Linux Suit Could Hurt Red Hat Linux Suit Could Hurt Red Hat: Very brief story, with 2 links and about 50 forum comments. [OSNews.com] (Red Hat) http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3020 Red Hat v The SCO Group Red Hat v The SCO Group: Full, uncommented text of original 4 August complaint, by plaintiff Red Hat, Inc., versus The SCO Group, Inc., formerly Caldera International, Inc. [LWN: Linux Weekly News] (Red Hat) http://lwn.net/images/ns/rh-complaint.pdf Red Hat Attacks, Sues SCO Red Hat Attacks, Sues SCO: Firm announces: requests preemptive judgment to find it innocent of all potential copyright violations; forms legal fund to help smaller Linux firms with their own defenses. [eWeek] (Red Hat) http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1210087,00.asp SCO Turns GPL against Red Hat SCO Turns GPL against Red Hat: SCO argues that for Red Hat to prove its claim that SCO is trying to harm market for Red Hat's successful OS, it must have ownership or proprietary interest in Linux, but that GPL prohibits such interest. [CNET News.com] (Red Hat) http://news.com.com/2452-7344-5094303.html Red Hat's Mad Matt Vs. Humongous SCO Lawsuit Red Hat's Mad Matt Vs. Humongous SCO Lawsuit: Matthew Szulik, CEO, Linux distributor Red Hat, is sick of threats SCO is making. Rather than wait for SCO to start suing Linux customers, Red Hat launched preemptive suit against SCO, for unfair, deceptive business practices. [Forbes] (Red Hat) http://www.forbes.com/2003/08/04/cz_dl_0804linux.html Red Hat Versus SCO Fight Will be Riveting Red Hat Versus SCO Fight Will be Riveting: Further legal specifics on new lawsuit against SCO. [The Inquirer] (Red Hat) http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10856 SuSE Backs Rival Red Hat in SCO Fight SuSE Backs Rival Red Hat in SCO Fight: New allegiances formed as distributors gang up on SCO. In official statement, SuSE said they applaud Red Hat efforts to restrict rhetoric of SCO, and fear, uncertainty and doubt SCO is trying to instill. [vnunet.com] (Red Hat) http://www.vnunet.com/News/1142837 Red Hat's Memorandum in Opposition to SCO's Motion to Dismiss Red Hat's Memorandum in Opposition to SCO's Motion to Dismiss: Documents for court, that laws exist that were written to forbid firms making false or misleading statements about another's product: the Lanham Act. PDF format. [Groklaw] (Red Hat) http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Opposition_to_Motion_to_Dismiss_092903.pdf SCO Moves to Dismiss Red Hat Lawsuit SCO Moves to Dismiss Red Hat Lawsuit: In latest legal maneuver, SCO says grounds for Red Hat lawsuit against SCO are baseless, Red Hat using lawsuit to defend Linux OS against nonexistent legal challenge. [Computerworld] (Red Hat) http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,85016,00.html Red Hat Fires Back at SCO in Linux Fight Red Hat Fires Back at SCO in Linux Fight: Files formal complaint against SCO to show its technologies don't infringe SCO intellectual property; stop SCO making unsubstantiated, untrue public statements attacking Red Hat, integrity of open-source software process. [Computerworld] (Red Hat) http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,83718,00.html Red Hat Reassures Linux Users Red Hat Reassures Linux Users: Firm stresses to customers that SCO claims against Linux, although taken seriously by the firm, are baseless. [ComputerWeekly] (Red Hat) http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=122186 Red Hat Attacks, SCO Counter Attacks Red Hat Attacks, SCO Counter Attacks: Red Hat tells world they aren't going to take SCO anti-Linux FUD anymore in 7 count lawsuit filed in Federal court against SCO. SCO first response was letter that SCO was trying for resolution with Linux distributors. [Linux Today] (Red Hat) http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003080502026NWCDLL Red Hat Sues SCO Red Hat Sues SCO: Files lawsuit against SCO, announced today. Matthew Szulik, Red Hat Chairman, CEO, says collaborative process of open source software development which created Linux OS has been unjustly questioned, threatened. [The Inquirer] (Red Hat) http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10849 SCO Details War of Words in Red Hat Spat SCO Details War of Words in Red Hat Spat: SCO takes unusual step: publishes correspondence between it and Red Hat, after Red Hat starts countersuit to stop SCO making unsubstantiated and untrue public statements on its code being used in Linux distributions. [vnunet.com] (Red Hat) http://www.vnunet.com/News/1142812