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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They will have to prove where it came from. If SCO contributed that code they can't sue over it. If IBM illegally contributed it, then maybe there is a case against IBM. But by giving away Linux under the GPL SCO will either be violating their license agreement on unixware or the GPL depending on which direction they choose to take.
In either case 80 lines is hardly anything to cry about. I could replace it in one night, and I'm just a sys admin, not a developer.
Can you believe how stupid this all looks when it comes out to be only 80 possible lines of infringing code? That's like a couple paragraphs out of a book. Put in a comment saying its copyrighted by SCO and even fair use might protect it. This is just silly.