The SCO suit isn’t the first legal challenge of an open source product by supposed owners of intellectual property used therein, but it is arguably
the most important one. Linux is rapidly becoming the center of the Unix programming domain, and the number of companies adopting Linux and/or
developing products for the platform grows by the day. Billions of dollars are at stake, as an entire industry has arisen around an operating system
that seemingly came from nowhere to challenge the business models of proprietary companies, Unix-based or otherwise.
Link: zdnet.com.com
