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Matthew writes: SCO has sued Kernelthread.com for their port of UNIX (5th Edition ca. 1974) to the Gameboy Advanced.

SCO CEO Daryl McBride had this to say: “Kernelthread.com has taken what we believe is probably our intellectual property and perhaps stolen it, potentially devaluing what might be our valuable potential IP such as source code that may be determined to be ours and the UNIX name, which we might be found to have some trademark interest in. This action dilutes our market position, as our current clientele will become confused in the marketspace and may elect to use this pirate version of UNIX rather than our official, certified corporate version. Therefore it causes us measurable harm, and we demand recompense.”

Amit Singh, speaking on behalf of Kernelthread.com, had this to say: “I don’t respond to idiots.”

In related news, the city of Santa Cruz has sued to have SCO remove both “Santa Cruz” from all of their corporate trademarks, and the S and C from their acronym, which would leave them with the name “O”. Oprah has announced that if they do that, she will sue for trademark infringement.