SAN JOSE — SCO Group's $1 billion lawsuit against IBM for allegedly giving away trade secrets in its open-source Linux programs is a potential boon to Microsoft and other proprietary software companies. SCO acquired the Unix operating system in 1995. It claims IBM is freely distributing proprietary code by converting aspects of its own Unix variant into a Linux product. IBM spokesman Joe Stunkard said yesterday that the complaint was "full of bare allegations with no supporting facts."
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