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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 01:25 AM EDT |
Yarro and Canopy bitterly parted ways and fought over his ouster in competing
lawsuits. Yarro ended up as the single largest shareholder of The SCO Group, a
Canopy company that held the rights to the Unix computer operating
system.
In 2003, SCO filed an infamous lawsuit against IBM, accusing it of
contract violations for allegedly using SCO’s Unix operating system as the basis
for changes that made the Linux operating system a viable competitor.
SCO
was accused of launching an attack on the open-source community that backed
Linux and Yarro was roundly vilified. The lawsuit remains pending but SCO
eventually ended up in bankruptcy court, where it still remains today. Unix was
sold to another company.
ThinkAtomic gives startups a head start - The Salt Lake Tribune [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 11:42 AM EDT |
The US Navy has signed off on a $27,883,883 contract from
military contractor Raytheon to install Linux ground control software for its
fleet of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones.
The contract covers
the Naval Air Station at Patuxent River in Maryland, which has already spent
$5,175,075 beginning to install Linux systems. The no-bid contract was
awarded to finish the work and get the Navy's drone fleet fully operational
using a Linux backbone.
Iain
Thomson, The Register[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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