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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>>I can see SCO's point in not wanting the lines to be released. If they were to just publish them to everyone, the first thing to happen would be for them to be removed from the kernel.<<
Nonesense. There are hundreds of thousands of labeled CDROMs out there which - according to scox - contain the offending code.
SCOX offered this lame excuse for not revealing the code early on. Then, in one of many position shifts, SCOX changed their reason and said they could not reveal the code because it was copyrighted. Another lame excuse: copyright would not stop them from revealing the Linux code.
If SCOX had any offending code to reveal, why wouldn't they sue IBM for copyright violations? Instead of just trade secrets?
Amazing to me that anybody can't see this for the scam that it is.