Press Release, 2 announcements: firm filed formal complaint against SCO; established Open Source Now Fund to cover legal costs of infringement claims against firms and non-profit organizations with efforts under GPL, $1 million. [Red Hat]

Full, uncommented text of original 4 August complaint, by plaintiff Red Hat, Inc., versus The SCO Group, Inc., formerly Caldera International, Inc. [LWN: Linux Weekly News]

Matthew Szulik, CEO, Linux distributor Red Hat, is sick of threats SCO is making. Rather than wait for SCO to start suing Linux customers, Red Hat launched preemptive suit against SCO, for unfair, deceptive business practices. [Forbes]

Texts of SCO last minute Fax to Red Hat, and reaction letter from SCO CEO Darl McBride. [Yahoo Finance]

Documents for court, that laws exist that were written to forbid firms making false or misleading statements about another's product: the Lanham Act. [Groklaw]

Files lawsuit against SCO, announced today. Matthew Szulik, Red Hat Chairman, CEO, says collaborative process of open source software development which created Linux OS has been unjustly questioned, threatened. [The Inquirer]

Further legal specifics on new lawsuit against SCO. [The Inquirer]

Red Hat tells world they aren't going to take SCO anti-Linux FUD anymore in 7 count lawsuit filed in Federal court against SCO. SCO first response was letter that SCO was trying for resolution with Linux distributors. [Linux Today]

Very brief story, with 2 links and about 50 forum comments. [OSNews.com]

Firm announces: requests preemptive judgment to find it innocent of all potential copyright violations; forms legal fund to help smaller Linux firms with their own defenses. [eWeek]