Samba Team Calls Out SCO
Rather than bore you with all the details of why SCO is a pretty dirty company, I’ll point you to this article.
Here’s the brief synopsis:
SCO say they own the rights to UNIX (an Operating System) and IBM used knowledge learned from UNIX and copied it, verbatim, into Linux. So now SCO says that everybody who runs Linux (the OS serving you this web page) needs to pay them anywhere from $299-$799 per computer! Here’s the rub: SCO, for years, distributed Linux under a license that says people are free to make unlimited copies of, and changes to (binary and source) software, as long as they release those changes under the same License (the GPL).
So the part that takes us to the Zenith of crazyiness is that after all of this hullabaloo, they have the audacity to take GPL code (Samba) and integrate it within their proprietary software.
I’m sure I’ll keep you up-to-date with this stuff as their lawsuit versus IBM progresses.