Open Source Development Labs Monday said it aims to establish a $10 million defense fund to pay the legal fees of Linux users sued by The SCO Group, plus those of OSDL employees, including Linus Torvalds. Torvalds is the Finnish creator of the Linux operating system.Open Source Development Labs Monday said it aims to establish a $10 million defense fund to pay the legal fees of Linux users sued by The SCO Group, plus those of OSDL employees, including Linus Torvalds. Torvalds is the Finnish creator of the Linux operating system.The Linux Legal Defense Fund, which has so far received $3 million in donations from IBM, Intel, MontaVista Software and others, aims to send the message that OSDL will stand up to the SCO’s threats, the OSDL said.About 6,000 Linux users have been charged with violating the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act by The SCO Group of Lindon, Utah, which believes that application binary interfaces have been copied from its Unix System V code into Linux, without proper authorization or copyright attribution. In addition, IBM was sued for more than $1 billion by SCO in March 2003. SCO claimed that IBM had destroyed its Unix business by illegally contributing software to Linux. Torvalds and other OSDL employees have been subpoenaed to provide information in the lawsuit between the two companies.OSDL, a global consortium headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., aims to raise the fund to $10 million, and will accept further donations from individuals, companies and organizations, it said. IBM, Intel and MontaVista were not immediately available for comment. Related content news Dell provides $150M to develop an AI compute cluster for Imbue Helping the startup build an independent system to create foundation models may help solidify Dell’s spot alongside cloud computing giants in the race to power AI. By Elizabeth Montalbano Nov 29, 2023 4 mins Generative AI news DRAM prices slide as the semiconductor industry starts to decline TSMC is reported to be cutting production runs on its mature process nodes as a glut of older chips in the market is putting downward pricing pressure on DDR4. By Sam Reynolds Nov 29, 2023 3 mins Flash Storage Technology Industry news analysis Cisco, AWS strengthen ties between cloud-management products Combining insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and AWS into a single view can dramatically reduce problem identification and resolution time, the vendors say. By Michael Cooney Nov 28, 2023 4 mins Network Management Software Cloud Computing opinion Is anything useful happening in network management? Enterprises see the potential for AI to benefit network management, but progress so far is limited by AI’s ability to work with company-specific network data and the range of devices that AI can see. By Tom Nolle Nov 28, 2023 7 mins Generative AI Network Management Software Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe