Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The long drawn out saga, which essentially is the SCO Group's battle with the Linux world at large, but which since 2003 has been focussed on IBM, took one step closer yesterday to being confined to the litigious junk heap that the US technology legal system has become.
To put things in their perspective, there are still 112 claims
outstanding that SCO has against IBM but another 182 claims were
dismissed by a Utah District Court magistrate.
The claims hinge
upon a rift between IBM and SCO emanating out of a collaborative
venture in 1998 called Project Monterey. SCO and IBM, with the support
of Intel were to develop a Unix port for the Intel 64-bit Itanium
system.
However, the collaboration fell apart and in 2000 IBM
began to support Linux development. Three years later, SCO launched a
US$5 billion legal action against IBM claiming that Unix code owned by
SCO was illegally used by IBM in its contribution to Linux development.
Needless to say, as IBM's contribution to the Linux development effort
has been considerable, all Linux distributions could conceivably be
affected. To date, however, SCO has yet to point to a single line of
code that IBM has allegedly misappropriated.
While there are
still another 112 claims that SCO can pursue and, if it wished, it
could appeal against the dismissal of the 182 claims yesterday, SCO,
unlike IBM, is running out of cash fast. With the massive movement that
Open Source software development has become and, with the notable
exception of Microsoft, the weight of a vast body of major IT vendors
behind Linux, the prospect of SCO gaining a settlement from IBM is
remote. The prospect of gaining a share of the intellectual property
rights to Linux distributions is even more remote.
David Bass
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