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[IH Geek [Dave]]

As in, what year/month/day did SCO make that IP claim, and match it on that SCOX share price chart.

SCOX begain it's price climb on 02/26/03.

Early timeline from http://www.linux.org/news/sco/timeline.html

01/10/03 Maureen O'Gara of LinuxGram posts a story that SCO is planning on suing Linux vendors for using proprietary Unix intellectual property. The story cites anonymous sources and claims that SCO is planning on charging per CPU and that it has retained David Boies as their attorney.

01/13/03 SCO issues a statement about the validity of the O'Gara story. They deny that they have retained Mr. Boies and state that SCO "has no desire to take legal action against fellow Linux vendors". While they do claim ownership of "core Unix IP" they further state: "we've made no decisions, formed no programs and announced nothing about this."

01/22/03 It turns out that SCO has retained David Boies' services after all. SCO claims they want to find out if there is SCO intellectual property in Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and versions of BSD. There's no specific mention of Linux yet, but McBride singles out Mac OS X: If you pull down (Mac) OS X you'll see a lot of copyright postings that point back to Unix Systems Laboratories, which is what we hold."