The SCO is an increasingly powerful military alliance that frequently works to counter American interests.
SCO, which is trying to obtain money from Linux users with threats of litigation.
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.
This was a clear snub that showed a startling lack of support for Russia's actions both from the four Central Asian members of the SCO and from China.
Canopy is also behind the better-known--but much-despised (and unprofitable)--SCO Group.
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.
Joint military exercises with fellow Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states and military exercises designed to simulate assaults on U.S. forces are becoming more difficult for the Bush Administration to ignore.
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.
The contradictory nature of Iran's association with the SCO is just one of the many illustrations of Russian and Chinese complicity with both rogue regimes, and even more critically, terrorists and their supporters.
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.
The Russian and Chinese led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is the most alarming example of these as this expanding alliance has both in its stated objectives and in practice demonstrated its desire to create a new world order based on multipolarity.
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