SCO names the sixth man

By Matt Whipp

Posted on 14 Nov 2003 at 11:17

SCO has said the sixth party to which it has served a subpoena is Digeo Corporation.

California-based Digeo Corporation is a company that makes set-top boxes. Not an obvious choice, you might think, although one Andrew Morton is the principal engineer.

In July Morton was hired by the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) to take up the reins on the 2.6 Linux kernel. He remains at Digeo in his capacity as principal engineer.

A SCO representative told us that the Andrew Morton link 'would be a good speculation,' as to why Digeo is being hauled to court. The Linux kernels 2.4 and above, with which Morton is involved, are those that SCO has taken issue with.

Of the other subpoenas, only one is being served to an individual: Linus Torvalds. The remainder are headed to Novell, which recently announced its acquisition of SUSE - the second most popular Linux distribution; to the Free Software Foundation - which maintains the GNU Public Licence; to the OSDL itself and to Transmeta, the company for which Linus Torvalds was working until he jumped aboard the OSDL.

The OSDL has also said it will use its law firm to represent Torvalds.