He declined to comment on whether SCO would pursue additional lawsuits against IBM or other Linux companies.
The company also said it had hired Boies to advise SCO on the company's patents, copyrights and intellectual property.
SCO, a tiny software firm in Utah, and Microsoft, the world's largest software firm, have only one thing in common.
Jones describes herself as a journalist, yet her blog is unabashedly pro-IBM, insisting from the start that SCO's claims are groundless.
Then in April Altiris dumped its chairman, Ralph Yarro, who happens to be head of both Canopy and SCO, and another Canopy director.
It was at the November 1995 Unix Expo in New York, following Novell's announcement that it was selling its Unix interests to SCO.
In late January 2002, SCO announced that it was creating a division to expand licensing its intellectual property, including the core Unix source code.
Chief Executive Gregory Butterfield says some potential customers have confronted him saying they would not do business with anyone affiliated with Canopy or SCO.
Linux fans were dismissive of SCO's chances of stopping their movement.
SCO's refusal to reveal which lines of code it considers problematic.
Butterfield insists he's managed to mollify customers who moan about SCO.
At a Wall Street analysts' conference last week, Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy warned that SCO would likely try to assert its IP rights against Linux.
The project was terminated in May 2001, SCO says, alleging that IBM "misused its access to the Unix Software Code" to help build the Linux open standard.
As evidence, SCO cites numerous statements from IBM and its executives that it would use knowledge from both Monterey and earlier IBM Unix iterations to improve Linux.
In addition, SCO developed a means by which Unix could be run on mass-market computer chips manufactured by Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).
"IBM made concentrated efforts to improperly destroy the economic value of Unix, particularly Unix on Intel, to benefit IBM's new Linux services business, " SCO said today in a prepared statement.
The suit charges that IBM "misappropriated the confidential and proprietary information" from a joint SCO-IBM project, called project Monterey, to run Unix on an advanced 64-bit computing system on the Intel platform.
"We have very strict confidentiality agreements with IBM about what they can and can't do" with Unix developed using SCO intellectual property, said Darl McBride , president and chief executive of SCO.
In February an intrepid reporter, Maureen O'Gara, decided to uncloak the mystery after she found a phone number Jones had left with staff at the federal courthouse in Nevada where a related SCO suit was filed.
He also said that a specific type of intellectual property cited in the suit, the so-called "shared libraries" used in the operation of Unix, was "one of seven or eight" different types of IP which SCO is investigating for IP violations by Linux developers.
In 2004, software vendor The SCO Group (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ) sued Linux user AutoZone (nyse: AZO - news - people ) for what it claims are violations of its intellectual property--a case that hasn't yet been resolved.
India was granted observer status in the SCO last year and while its intentions regarding full membership are unclear at this time, the Russia and China led alliance would allow New Delhi a greater influence in Central Asia, which it desires, and at least ostensible cooperation in counterterrorism efforts.
Litigious Unix vendor SCO Group , which became one of the most hated names in tech after it sued various Linux customers, announced this week that it's seen a sharp decline in income, caused in part by shrinking demand for its products and millions of dollars in legal bills.
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