SCO backs up claims of Linux ip theft
WinInfo | at | by Mike
The biggest threat facing open-source sensation Linux today isn't Windows and the voracious company that makes it, but an increasingly dangerous legal battle with the SCO Group, the owner of various copyrights, patents, and intellectual property for UNIX, the OS on which Linux is based. According to SCO, IBM and numerous other Linux makers and users are violating the law by using Linux because the OS includes code stolen from UNIX, and SCO is now suing IBM for $1 billion. The response from the Linux community thus far has been childish at best--one group responded by repeatedly attempting to hack into the SCO Web site, for example--but now that a handful of analysts have taken the opportunity to validate SCO's claims, the once-laughable lawsuit isn't causing chuckles anymore.