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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However, I would advise enterprises that consider deploying Linux to wait until SCO has been obliterated in court.
I do not agree with statement unless SCO openly published the tainted area of Linux by SCO's patent. In my opinion since the code is not yet published openly, there are no possibility for many others to know how valid the claim is. Until the court give the decision, I think it still safe.
Furthermore, SCO claim (maybe the are the real lier) the legal action is more toward contract issu with IBM rather than the nature of Linux itself. Although we all know this is all about money, let see how much SCO want to spend if they want to sue every company that use or distribute Linux since their case are not strong enough.