I've been following the news as well. I think SCO's executives are slandering linux and printing libelous drivel about it, and if it were a legal individual like a corporation, it could easily sue. Alas, the open-source community including the mighty GNU are not an entity like this.
For those who don't follow the news:
SCO is a company that was sold, and at some point was Caldera. It was bought by the current incarnation of SCO. It claims many unix rights that Caldera and the original unix contained. These are patents or copyrights. These rights were passed from company to company until SCO gained ownership.
Their legal complaint:
Linux contains "stolen copyrighted code", evidence of which they will eventually show us. They haven't really shown anything yet, but the slander and libel have flowed constantly through press releases for a long time. I think it's been a full year of whining and moaning without any proof of guilt.
They just threaten people with lawsuits and sell off shares of stock as they inflate the company. They're milking open source's good name and trading it for cash.
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