Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Tue 17th Jun 2003 19:25 UTC
Everyone knows what Microsoft does by now. What some people do not know is that Microsoft releases a system integration software named Windows services for UNIX. 
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A bit of History, Softway Systems wrote the NT DDL POSIX compatablity Layer in 1995,
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/invitedtalks/walli.pdf
and Microsoft aquired Softway in 1999. The OS level was written to the POSIX standards,
http://www.pasc.org/#POSIX
which insure royalty-free patent access via decades of prior-art.
Microsoft's SFU and Interix products are in no way dependent upon the intellectual property that SCO holds.
Should that not be GNU/SFU?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=57316&cid=5526040
If Microsoft just wanted to extend SFU without further violating either SCO's ( now claimed as Novell's ) intellectual property or the GPL, it can do exactly what it did with the NT/2000/XP TCP/IP stack - embrace and extend the source from the unencumbered BSD varients.