Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Tue 10th Jun 2003 01:06 UTC
SCO, Caldera, Unixware 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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by Anonymous on Tue 10th Jun 2003 11:08 UTC

The FSF has no real money, so what could a vendor sue them for? How could a vendor prevent anyone from using open source (even if it was all 100% copied code, the entire thing) if there is no entity to direct a lawsuit against and not only that, but who would they sell products too, how would the vendor survive if the people choose to win.