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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You'd pay royalties if you are still using it but if said code is removed....Well then the only thing anyone would have to pay would be for damages inquired to SCO's violation of it's IP and thats it. If SCO is right ( and this is a BIG IF !! ) what have they gained in the end ? Nothing but a few more months if not a year or two before they burn off whatever amount of cash they recieve in any court case. They have all but lost the hearts and minds of Unix and Linux admins across the globe and in IMHO. SCO's only hope is being bought out by IBM and I don't see that happening anytime soon.