SCO Group sues SCO Group

LINDON, Utah, June 13, 2003 -- The SCO® Group (SCO)(Nasdaq: SCOX), the owner of the UNIX operating system, announced today that it was filng suit against The SCO® Group (Nasdaq: SCOX) for illegal inclusions of SCO UNIX intellectual property in SCO Linux.

"SCO is taking this important step because there are intellectual property issues with Linux," said Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource. "When SCO's own UNIX software code is being illegally copied into SCO Linux by our own employees, we believe we have an obligation to put a stop to this. We felt that using the legal system as a first step would be more productive than simply talking to the other department about it quietly. We're trying to make a point here".

It also indicated that it may pursue legal action against the customers of the SCO Group who continue to use SCO Linux in the light of this action, and has begun the process of serving itself with a subpoena duces tecum for a full and complete customer list. "We have a right to know where our intellectual property is being used", said Sontag.

When asked to respond to the lawsuit, a spokesman for the SCO Group had no comment.

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for the humor-impaired: this is a joke. SCO has been suing everybody over this lately

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