SCO Group's ongoing legal action against IBM and end users of Linux has quietly left one company out of the dog fight: Sun Microsystems.
In the legal battle, SCO is claiming that the Linux operating system IBM sells and that many other companies use runs infringes on intellectual property rights it holds to some Unix code.
Sun has started to embrace Linux, though on a much smaller scale than have competitors Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. However, it continues to back its Solaris version of Unix.
Responding to a question from Silicon.com this week, Sun CEO Scott McNealy said: "I don�t want to speculate (on the outcome of the lawsuit), but I'm thrilled to death SCO can�t revoke our Unix license."
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