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AutoZone, meet the SCO Group

Well, it's official. Those whacky lawyers at the SCO Group have filed suit against AutoZone for alleged copyright violations via the company's use of Linux.
March 03, 2004

Well, it's official. Those whacky lawyers at the SCO Group have filed suit against AutoZone for alleged copyright violations via the company's use of Linux. We'll see how AutoZone responds, faced with a potential extortion fee (did I say that outloud?) of nearly 700 per server. But in the meantime, here's a verbal riff from SCO's team of litigants, I'm sure you'll enjoy:

AutoZone violated SCO's UNIX copyrights by running versions of the Linux operating system that contain code, structure, sequence and/or organization from SCO's proprietary UNIX System V code in violation of SCO's copyrights.

I wonder which "organization" they're talking about here, perhaps Kernighan & Ritchie, GNU, Berkeley or Allman?

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