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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Personally I hope they lose.
Not because of any reasons to do with copyright or the nebulous notion of "freedom", but pure and simply because putting programmers out of jobs is immoral. It serves no purpose to society but to sate the unwholesome appetites of certain elements of the unemployed male population who, for whatever reason, cannot find themselves employment.
Open Source Software is degrading to all programmers. It encourages the myth that any layperson can program, and its whole purpose is to encourage anti-capitalism and promote socialism, something which God-fearing Christians know to be wrong. A true programmer has no need to release his source code for peer review, he is confident in his abliity.
Programmers are exploited with the promise of bountiful Paypal money and the supposed "liberating" experiance of having their source code available for anyone to see. These are lies from an industry filled with perverts of the highest order, people for whom Linux is a way of life.
It is a symptom of the moral decay of modern society that the Open Source business has become so huge. The OSS" industry, which takes degradation to new extremes, makes over twice as much money as all of Silicon Valley does each year. America has turned away from its decent, Microsoft roots and has become the home of perversion, the modern day Sodom and Gomorrah, and God has become "just another idea" to people who have become lost to His love.
No, the day when the whole "industry" gets struck down by lightning cannot come to soon, but in the meantime I hope IBM loses this case.