The $3 billion dollar lawsuit filed by SCO against IBM continues.
Only problem is, it's now a $5 billion dollar lawsuit.
SCO have made claims that IBM's code, written cleanly without reference to SCO's Unix, but made to run on top of Unix belongs to SCO.
The stakes of the claim have been raised even higher by SCO now as they are making two claims against the computer giant.
Mark Modersitzki, spokesperson for SCO said,
"SCO's amended claims are focused on its copyright claims. SCO is in a 'holding pattern' until the judge's ruling next week."
The new copyright claim is not in reference to Unix code in Linux but to IBM's continued distribution of AIX, even after SCO "terminated" IBM's irrevocable license to SVR5 Unix. A "termination" reversed by Novell who oversees SCO's decisions vis-a-vis Unix licensees.
The SCO website has been offline for over a week now, the result of the MyDoom virus which was launched to conduct a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against the SCO corporation a couple of weeks ago.
UPDATE: We'd like to thank Robert Taylor for supplying corrections to this article.
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