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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Good to see a nice, and well balanced article on the subject...
Assuming SCO wins the case, I don't think the end user is going to have many problems (other than having to update the kernel and some tools, to avoid licence fees), however it's the big linux distro's (Redhat, Suse, etc) and linux backers (IBM, SUN, etc) that are going to hurt (being the distributors of the product)...
If SCO lose, nothing happens, and SCO just become the laughing stock of both the IT and Business World.
Chewy509...