“SCO’s basic claim against IBM is simple. According to SCO, it
is the legal successor to AT&T with respect to licensing of the
AT&T Unix source code and its derivatives. IBM, SCO said,
violated the contractual terms under which it has access to
AT&T and related code by passing protected knowledge into the
Linux development effort.“As a result, SCO issued a stop-use order with the 100-day
hiatus required under the contract, but IBM neither changed its
behavior nor embarked on good-faith negotiations to settle the
issue. SCO therefore asked the court to enforce its rights under
the contract…”
Groklaw: Eric Raymond on Minix and Linux
“I could probably even offer an educated guess who the submitter
to Slashdot might have been, but whoever it was, the article is so
wrong, it’s hard to know where to begin. Leaving aside the rest of
the screed (I do believe he called us idiots, for example) his
‘evidence’ is a quotation from Eric Raymond’s ‘The Cathedral and
the Bazaar,’ which others before him have also twisted to try to
make the same point. I sent the excerpt to Eric, and asked for a
comment, and Eric has provided a response…”