The result has been outrage in the open source community, as reflected in angry news group postings and open letters. Other companies, notably IBM and Red Hat, have taken legal actions of their own. Leading figures on both sides have traded salvos of interviews and press releases.
These pages are an attempt to provide a useful summary of information, and to focus the debate.
The FAQ tries to sort out the some of the claims and counterclaims of fact and law, without resorting to name-calling or inflammatory rhetoric. It focuses on the legal status of Linux, and on the likelihood that SCO will be successful in its efforts.
I have deliberately avoided a number of related topics, such as the tangled history of Unix, the dumping of stock by SCO insiders, and the possible roles of Microsoft and Sun.
I welcome feedback from others who may be able to correct whatever errors of fact or of law may have crept in.
The IAQ consists of Infrequently Asked Questions, in that interviewers of SCO spokesmen have generally not asked them. Alternatively, they are Infrequently Answered Questions, because SCO has avoided answering them.
Samba and the GPL (Could be adapted to any GPL'd software redistributed by SCO)
SCO and JFS -- An imaginary cross-examination