Legal Issues

An Oakland man pleaded not guilty today to killing his estranged wife, whose body is still missing more than two months after she disappeared.

Hans Reiser, 42, entered a not-guilty plea in…

The New York-based patent stockpiler was formed in November 2005 by IBM, Red Hat, Novell, Philips and Sony to acquire patents, offering them royalty-free to Linux supporters and using them as a…

A UK law has been passed that makes it an offence to launch denial of service attacks, which experts had previously called "a legal grey area."

Among the provisions of the Police and…

Ransome Love basically admits that all of SCO's claims against IBM and against Linux are bogus. For example, SCO says Linux is derivative of Unix code that it owns. Bull. "To my knowledge, while I…

A federal judge has refused a motion to postpone proceedings in the SCO Group's lawsuit against Novell until after next year's separate SCO-IBM trial concludes.

However, U.S. District Judge…

The SCO Group v. IBM lawsuit is starting to remind me of the chorus from my favorite Robert Earl Keen tune: "The road goes on forever, and the party never ends."

Seems like this case will…

Microsoft has denied allegations that it offered to guarantee an investment made in The SCO Group, a software company embroiled in a long-standing intellectual property dispute with IBM.

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Hans Reiser, author of ReiserFS, was taken into custody at 11 a.m., hours after Oakland police and FBI technicians searched his home in the Oakland hills. His estranged wife, Nina Reiser, 31, has…

Heavens. End game is turning out to be fun. SCO now begs the court to postpone its bankruptcy by... no, wait, they didn't say that. They ask for a stay on the Novell motion for partial summary…

Both sides in SCO v. IBM have filed motions for summary judgment. To be precise, SCO has filed one for partial summary judgment (which I'll have up in a minute or two) and IBM has filed several…