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SCO asks for additional IBM code

Wants it all for upcoming case

Tags: aix, sco, dynix/ptx, ibm

By CNET News.com staff

Published: 7 June 2004 09:10 GMT

The SCO Group filed a memorandum on Friday in its lawsuit against IBM that indicates it needs more Unix code from IBM to detail its claims that Big Blue violated a contract between the two companies.

IBM has provided SCO with some of the source code from its AIX and Dynix/ptx versions of Unix but SCO now is requesting the source code underlying all intermediate versions of the software and the accompanying comments, logs and files from corporate programming tools.

In the case, SCO is alleging that IBM breached its contract with SCO by moving proprietary Unix technology into open source Linux.

The memo on Friday indicates that SCO likely will ask the judge in the US District Court in Utah to compel IBM to release more information, SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said on Thursday.

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