[ Thanks to Jason
Perlow for this link. ]
“In the meantime, another furor has erupted concerning SCO
Unix’s ability to run Linux binaries. Other people have written
about this, and I have talked to some of their sources, and it
comes down to the idea that SCO didn’t reverse-engineer Unix to run
those binaries; they claim to have copied code directly from Linux
to Unix. To those who think this isn’t a problem, take a look at
the Linux General Public License and you’ll see it very much is a
problem since SCO doesn’t release Unix source code to regular
customers and the GPL requires open source.“So at the same time SCO is blaming IBM for putting Unix System
V code into Linux, Linus Torvalds (as the Linux copyright holder)
may have a claim against SCO for putting Linux source code into SCO
Unix.“But wait, there’s more…!”