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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Utah company suffered another setback today in a lawsuit accusing IBM of donating proprietary Unix software code to Linux developers.
U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball upheld a magistrate's decision to dismiss most of the nearly 300 claims The SCO Group has filed against Big Blue.
SCO owns Unix -- a computer operating system that among other things runs the Nasdaq trading network. It earns money by licensing continually improved versions.
The Utah company claims IBM deployed licensed code it was supposed to keep confidential into the freely distributed Linux operating system. IBM denies that any code it gave to Linux was owned by SCO.
Kimball indefinitely postponed a trial that had been set for Feb. 26 and instead scheduled a series of hearings in March. At those hearings, IBM will ask the judge to throw out what remains of the 5(B)billion-dolar lawsuit SCO filed in 2003.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
