As pressure mounts against SCO and its crusade to protect what it sees as its intellectual property, Novell, which once owned Unix rights, publicly challenged SCO assertions that it owns Unix System V copyrights, patents. [eWeek]

Firm announces: requests preemptive judgment to find it innocent of all potential copyright violations; forms legal fund to help smaller Linux firms with their own defenses. [eWeek]

Now it is Silicon Graphics turn in court; SCO threatens to terminate SGI Unix license over code contributed to Linux, similar to claim made against IBM. SGI also denies claim. [eWeek]

Ability to build cash war chest too compelling to pass up, so SCO agreed to $50 million investment deal, announced yesterday, with investment fund BayStar Capital. CEO Darl McBride pleased with transaction. [eWeek]

Received large cash boost in private investment deal led by investment fund BayStar Capital, structured as private placement of non-voting Series A Convertible Preferred Shares, at fixed conversion price $16.93/share. [eWeek]

In heavy trading, SCO shares rose about 30 percent as firm defends what it sees as unauthorized illegal use of its Unix code by customers, Linux users, vendors, open source community. [eWeek]

Sun Microsystems redies AIX to Solaris Migration Program to harvest possible customers from looming battle between SCO and IBM over IBM AIX license, its Unix OS; mandated 100-day license notice period ends Friday. [eWeek]

Linux creator this week responded to range of allegations made by SCO at its SCO Forum 2003 conference, Las Vegas. Torvalds disputes what was shown as evidence of illegal Unix System V code in Linux. [eWeek]