Actually, SCO claims to own UNIX, and also claims that Linux utilizes code from the UNIX source base that it owns, specifically the Linux that IBM ships with all their servers as well as the Linux distribution from SGI, which SCO has named in a separate lawsuit. As for SCO vs. Microsoft, Microsoft licenses UNIX technology and patents from SCO, and is rumored to be behind a $50 Million cash investment from an investment firm that occured last October. The firm, BayStar, has been involved with Microsoft investments before this one, but denies that MS has anything to do with this one to SCO.
SCO has also sued Novell, and a firm in Australia (whose name I can't remember at the moment). SCO has also failed to provide any evidence (source code) to date which proves that IBM's Linux has anything to do with their UNIX source code.
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