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 SCO and IBM are American companies so I'm not too worried as a non American. It seems that a large number of American corporations are corrupt, and it looks like the owners and operators live a low standard dog eat dog lifestyle. I'm just really glad that I am far away from it all.
What I will want to see from open source isn't soo much Linux, however for now, Linux is great to learn about. I have copies of various Linux releases, so I can study the source code regardless of whatever happens in the external environment. I want to live in a technological society that can express itself with differentation. In other words, I would like to see everyone running different platforms and communicating through open standards.
The current open source model has been effective in tearing down an evil monopoly. It's become so successful that now organizations are trying to own Linux because there is so much profit in open source.
The current open source model has one big weakness however. We are still all running the same code base. This makes Linux vulnerable, and any species that is vulnerable needs to adapt to change or else be exterminated. Open source technology can be based on differentation if the focus is on object oriented technology.
This is a great challenge to open source, and I know that no matter what happens in America, people will never give up open source for proprietary and vendor controlled software. That is simply not possible anymore. I just think that it's time for open source to make a huge leap. To adapt and be free of the enemy.