| Sumario: | While software company Novell has struggled through bosses and business models, a rival universe to Microsoft started expanding. This is the movement for free software. Chief among these open-source programmes is Linux, now a real alternative to Microsoft Windows for server computers. The new combination of Novell, Ximian and SuSE, offering a complete "stack" of software from the server to the client, might also help the open-source community to deal with another distraction. Little-known company SCO, which had bought the rights to UNIX, started claiming that Linux violates its property. It filed a suit against IBM, Linux's biggest corporate supporter, and threatened to sue Linux users. IBM has sued right back, and agreed to buy a $50 million stake in Novell as part of the deal with SsSE, and users show little sign of slowing their adoption of Linux.
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