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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It is an impossible task for the linux or bsd kernel maintainers to check the origin of the code that is submitted to them, after all, Solaris, Windows or AIX source code isn't available to the public. The same can be said of Oracle or Norton Antivirus for instance.
Do people really expect proprietary software makers to give Linus a copy of their sources so that he can make sure his product doesn't infringe on anybody's intellectual property or copyright ?
I just hope reporters will stop asking from Open Source programs what they never asked from their proprietary counterparts.