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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The best course of action for IBM is to buy SCO and all their UNIX licenses and copyrights. Afterall, IBM has deep pockets. IBM should then make all the UNIX source code publicly available under www.kernel.org. This move will render IBM's relations with the open source community unbreakable. Enterprises around the world will then need to change their business models accordingly. IBM is now in the position to be The One that save humanity from the disease called "closed source." Has our saviour finally arrived?