  SCO IS SMOKING CRACK Linus Torvalds is urlLink interviewed in eWeek about the SCO Linux lawsuit . This article sets out rather simply and clearly why Linux code isn't covered by SCO's copyrights. According to Torvalds, SCO's alleged offending code is either historical Linux code, BSD code, or only identical with SCO's copyrighted Unix because it complies with public standards.
Torvalds was asked whether SCO could be right in its claim that there are either so many lines of code that are infringing, or infringing and non-infringing code are so intertwined, that makes removal of that code impossible. Torvalds' response: They are smoking crack. Their slides said there are [more than] 800,000 lines of SMP code that are "infringing," and they are just off their rocker. The SMP code was written by a number of Linux people I know well (I did a lot of the SMP IRQ scalability myself, personally), so their claims are just ludicrous.
And they claim they own JFS [journaled file system technology] too. Whee. They're not shy about claiming ownership of other people's code while at the same time beating their breasts about how they have been wronged. So the SCO people seem to have a few problems keeping the truth straight, but if there is something they know all about, it's hypocrisy. Yeah. What he said. 
