Judge Accepts SCO Group's Expanded Suit Against IBM

A judge has accepted the SCO Group's changes to a lawsuit against IBM that now seeks $5 billion in damages for Big Blue's alleged moving of Unix intellectual property into Linux. Because IBM didn't oppose SCO's motion to amend its claims -- a motion that was "subject to IBM's right to move against the amended pleadings" -- Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells accepted SCO's new legal attack, he said in a filing in the U.S. District Court in Utah.