A cikin 'yan watannin da suka gabata mun raba a nan a kan blog mai biyo baya dangane da takaddamar dake tsakanin SCO da IBM wanda ya kai kimanin shekaru 20 saboda wasu kararraki da aka yi a kan batun haƙƙin mallaka na Unix.
Duk ya fara ne a cikin 1995 tare da siyar da Novell na lambar Unix zuwa kamfanin SCO (mai siyar da UNIX don masu sarrafa x86). Adadin cinikin ya kusan dala miliyan 150. Wannan tallan ya haifar da tafsiri guda biyu cikin mahalarta taron. Novell ya yi imanin cewa ya canza lambar kawai, ba haƙƙin mallakar fasaha ba, yayin da SCO ke iƙirarin siyan duka biyun.
A cikin 1998, IBM, Santa Cruz Operation, da sauransu sun taru don ƙirƙirar Project Monterey. tare da manufar haɓaka nau'in UNIX wanda ke gudana akan dandamali da yawa na hardware. Abin da al'ummar Linux suka fara yi kuma.
A cikin 2001, IBM ya yanke shawarar cewa Linux shine gaba kuma ya watsar da Project Monterey, har ma yana jan wasu daga cikin mahalarta Project Monterey a farke. A lokacin, Big Blue ta ƙirƙiri sigar gwaji ta tsarinta. Farashin AIX kama da UNIX wanda yayi amfani da lambar SCO. AIX shine tsarin aiki mai kama da Unix wanda IBM ya saki tun 1986. AIX yana nufin Advanced Interactive eXecutive, duk da haka kawai acronym ana amfani dashi.
Amma da zarar ya bar aikin Monterey, IBM ya tura wasu daga cikin kayan fasaha zuwa Linux. SCO ta ki ga waɗannan gudunmawar saboda ta yi imanin cewa IBM ta ba da kadarorinta ga tushen tushen codebase na Linux.
Bugu da ƙari, a ranar 6 ga Maris, 2003. Caldera Systems, an sake masa suna kamar SCO, ya kawo wani mataki a kan IBM saboda karya kwangilar aikin haɗin gwiwa na Monterey wanda ke magana akan haɓaka haɗin gwiwa na tsarin aiki na Unix. Mai shigar da karar ya zargi Big Blue musamman da bayyana wasu daga cikin lambar tushe na Unix da hanyoyin ba da gudummawa ga Linux da haɓaka AIX.
Da farko yana da'awar diyyar dala biliyan 1, da'awarsa ta karu da sauri a cikin watanni uku ya kai dala biliyan 3. Lura cewa a wannan shekarar SCO ta kuma kai hari ga Novell ta hanyar ganin wani haramtaccen tushen lambar tushe na Unix a cikin Linux, yana da'awar $ XNUMX biliyan don cin zarafin haƙƙin mallaka.
An yi yaƙi da IBM a watan Agusta 2003 a kotun tarayya ta Utah da kuma haifar da kukan da ba a taɓa yin irinsa ba a duniyar IT (daga Gidauniyar Software ta Kyauta zuwa Novell, gami da nata ma'aikatan), An gano SCO da sauri a cikin mummunan yanayi.
Yanzu da'awar $ 5 biliyan daga IBM, Kamfanin ya yi nisa sosai a cikin Yuli 2004 don yin cikakken bayani game da koke-kokensa cewa an haɗa wasu lambobin sa a cikin UNIX executable da tsarin tsarin fayil na JFS. Ko init, an ƙunshe shi ba bisa ka'ida ba a cikin kwayayen Linux.
A gaskiya ma, ko da yake SCO ya yi fatara, dukiyoyinsa sun ci gaba da rayuwa a ƙarƙashin sababbin masu mallakar. IBM ya ci gaba da gwagwarmaya, kuma ƙungiyoyin da suka gaji dukiyar basirar SCO sun ci gaba da gwada sababbin sasanninta, gano sababbin hanyoyin samun kudade, ko duka biyun. Xinuos, wanda ya kwace kadarorin SCO shekaru 10 da suka gabata, ya juya baya ga IBM. An sake zargin Big Blue, a wannan karon ta Xinuos, da yin kwafi ba bisa ka'ida ba ta lambar manhajar da ta sayo daga SCO don amfani da ita a tsarinta.
Xinuos, wanda ke sayar da UnixWare da OpenServer, ya shigar da kara a farkon wannan shekarar yana zargin satar dukiyar fasaha da hada baki da kasuwar hada-hadar kudi kan wadanda ake kara na hadin gwiwa IBM da Red Hat. An kafa Xinuos ne a kusa da kadarorin SCO Group kimanin shekaru goma da suka gabata a karkashin sunan UnXis, kuma a lokacin, magajin SCO ba shi da sha'awar ci gaba da takaddamar da aka dade a kan Linux.
Shari’ar ta yi zargin cewa IBM ta shigar da lambar da ba a bayyana ba daga UnixWare na kamfanin da lambar OpenServer cikin na’urar IBM ta AIX. Har ila yau, ya yi zargin cewa IBM da Red Hat sun hada kai kai tsaye don raba duk kasuwar tsarin aiki kamar Unix zuwa manyan damar kasuwanci ga IBM, wanda ya bar Xinuos cikin duhu.
Har ma mafi ban mamaki, kamfanin yayi ikirarin cewa IBM yana neman lalata FreeBSD gaba daya: "Dabarun IBM tare da Red Hat ya fito fili ya rusa FreeBSD, wanda sabbin fasahohin kwanan nan daga Xinuos suka dogara dashi."
Kuma ya ci gaba da neman ba kawai diyya ba, har ma da cikar soke nasarar da IBM ta samu na Red Hat: “Dole ne a bayyana haɗewar ba bisa ƙa'ida ba wanda ya saba wa akalla sashe na 7 na Dokar Clayton, kuma dole ne a ba da umarnin IBM da Red Hat don rabuwa da sokewa. duk yarjejeniyoyin da ke da alaƙa a tsakaninsu”.
Daga karshe Kotun gundumar Utah ta kawo karshen karar na SCO akan IBM.
A cewar Kotun, tun da:
“Dukkan iƙirari da ikirari a cikin wannan harka, zargin ko a’a, zarge-zarge ko a’a, an warware su, an daidaita su kuma an warware su gabaɗaya, kuma sun dace da dalili. TA NAN ANA UMURCI cewa a BADA bukatar jam’iyyun… ɓangarorin za su ɗauki nasu farashi da kashe kuɗi, gami da kuɗaɗen doka. Sakatare ne ke da alhakin rufe aikin”.
A ranar 26 ga Agusta, 2021, wata ƙarar sasantawa daga Kotun Ba da Lamuni ta Amurka don Gundumar Delaware ta nuna cewa bangarorin "sun amince da warware duk takaddamar da ke tsakanin su ta hanyar biyan ma'aikacin (...) na $ 14,250,000" a cikin biyar. kwanakin kasuwanci daga ranar tasiri na yarjejeniyar sulhu. A bayyane yake, idan bangarorin biyu sun yarda da shawarar, wannan yarjejeniya za ta kawo karshen karar da tsohuwar SCO ta yi da IBM. A cikin kwanaki 5, IBM zai biya dala miliyan 14,25 ta hanyar canja wurin zuwa ga mai gudanarwa wanda ke kula da fatarar SCO, wanda aka sake masa suna TSG Group. Don na ƙarshe, an yi wannan shawara ta hanyar da ta dace, la'akari da mafi kyawun sha'awar masu lamuni kuma dole ne a amince da su.
A sakamakon, TLD ta yafe duk hakkoki da bukatu a cikin duk shari'ar da ke gudana ko nan gaba akan IBM da Red Hat, da duk wani zargin cewa Linux ya sabawa kaddarorin fasaha na Unix na SCO.
Source: Umurnin kotu