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1 SCO v. IBM Foundations and Update

2 A too-brief description and history PDP-11/05 boot sequence, C, and Unix IBM O/S 360 and Fred Brooks – The Mythical Man-Month MS Windows, the first “free” OS

3 An historic collision Economic Theories – Capitalism, Socialism, and one other The Open Source Movement as an example of the “other”

4 An historic collision Property Intellectual Property (IP) Copyrights vs. Patents The Revolutionary France copyright problem The GPL

5 An historic collision Unix – ownership issues Linus Torvalds and Linux Linux as a universal operating system Linux ownership issues

6 An historic collision Who owns “Unix”? AT&T USL – BSD Novell Open-Source Group Santa Cruz Operation/Tarantella old Caldera/new “The SCO Group”

7 An historic collision SCO v. IBM March 6, 2003 The most watched Civil Trial in history The largest IP owner in the world, IBM, vs. the alleged owner of Unix, “The SCO Group”

8 An historic collision PJ (Pamela Jones) and Groklaw www.groklaw.net www.groklaw.net www.ip-wars.net

9 SCO v. IBM 25-Sep-06 [704] Dispositive Motions Summary Judgment Motions 02-Jun-06 04-Aug-06 18-Aug-06 13-Oct-06 [743]Responses to Requests for Admissions 01-Sep-06 08-Sep-06 25-Oct-06 [704] Oppositions to Dispositive Motions Summary Judgment Motions 29-Sep-06 06-Oct-06 24-Nov-06 [704] Reply Briefs on Dispositive Motions (Reply Memoranda) 12-Jan-07[466]Rule 26(a)(3) Disclosures 19-Jan-07[466]Final Pretrial Order 22-Jan-07[466]Deadline for Exchanging Proposed Jury Instructions 26-Jan-07[466]Motions in Limine 30-Jan-07[466]Special Attorney Conference and Settlement Conference 05-Feb-07[466]Oppositions to Motions in Limine 09-Feb-07[466]Reply Briefs on Motions in Limine 26-Feb-07[466]5-week Jury Trial


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