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 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.
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.