Frequently Asked Questions about Red Hat and SCO

Below we've provided answers to questions that may help clarify Red Hat's position. If you have additional questions that aren't answered below, please email us at legal@redhat.com.

  1. Has anyone at SCO talked to Red Hat about its claims?

    SCO has never approached Red Hat concerning the claims they've made publicly.

  2. What is Red Hat going to do about these claims? How do you protect your customers?

    The claims are unsubstantiated. We are not party to any lawsuit over UNIX code. No one has established publicly or in court that any UNIX code has been infringed.

    We continue to exercise our proven processes of open source code development and review, and will communicate with our customers and partners as appropriate.

    We will do what we've always done, build great products and deliver high value Linux solutions.

  3. Do Red Hat products have any infringing UNIX code?

    We have no knowledge of infringing code.

  4. Do I need to buy a SCO license?

    SCO has not demonstrated that any infringement exists, nor has it established that it owns derivative works in UNIX. Nothing has been proven to establish that such a license is needed.