Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Tue 10th Jun 2003 01:06 UTC
On March 7th 2003, the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM for misappropriation of tradesecrets and contractual agreements. The scope of SCOs complaint is that IBM introduced parts of Unix System V and Project Monterey into the Linux kernel. Project Monterey was a effort to port IBM's AIX 5L onto the Intel Itanium platform, IBM withdrew from that project for reasons unknown according to the press, I believe that it was because the Itanium is a bomb. 
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I actually found it rather biased, and not very informative.
SCO spokesman: Linux has stolen code, but we won't show you.
Linux analyst: quit spreading FUD. show us the code.
SCO spokesman: we don't want to destroy Linux, just to make money on suing everyone. we'll show the code in time.
Linux analyst: Openserver and Unixware suck. you have a 20% chance in court, even though I have no actual basis for my opinion.
blah blah blah.. am I the only one sick of seeing this?
any questionable code can be replaced easily enough, but there still could be repercussions for anyone that distributed the code without SCO's consent. if so, then I'm sure they'll be dealt with. in the meantime, I wish both sides would just quiet down until there's really something to argue about.