Posted 3:20 PM

Maybe, just maybe

Mitch Wagner at InternetWeek has an interesting article based on the question What If SCO Is Right? Odd things could occur should a trial of SCO's suit against IBM actually take place. Wagner also brings up the possibility first raised by the Free Software Foundation that SCO may have inadvertently released its own intellectual property (IP) as part of the Linux Kernel when it released OpenLinux under the GNU license. I don't believe that any judge would throw the suit out on those grounds however. SCO would have to have known that their IP was included in the kernel when they released OpenLinux. Then, too, SCO's claim is that IBM added parts of Unix to the kernel which never was distributed by SCO. That might form the basis of a counter-claim by IBM, but most likely would only serve to reduce the price of a settlement.