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The Salt Lake Tribune: Congress Key Factor for Linux

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“One way or another, rights to the core coding behind the Linux
operating system (OS) ultimately will be decided by several federal
court lawsuits stemming from SCO Group’s claims on the popular
“open source,” or freely distributed software.

“But the longer term battle for Linux, an offshoot of the Unix
OS that Lindon-based SCO claims to own outright, could be decided
by Congress, if authors of the fledgling Open Source and Industry
Alliance have their way.

“Unveiled this week at San Francisco’s LinuxWorld conference,
the group primarily will serve as a lobbying group to urge
lawmakers to adopt Linux for use in government computer
systems…”

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