Does Linux Have a Dark Secret?

Source: OS Opinion

In his sci-fi western tale The Dark Tower, Stephen King's gloomy hero Roland the Gunslinger utters the sage observation, "Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

So, people who hate you are far more likely to level with you. It's a message the open-source community might want to heed as it prepares for what could be a nasty battle against SCO Group (SCOX). This Lindon, Utah, software concern claims it holds key rights to the Unix operating system. More importantly, SCO has sued IBM (NYSE: IBM) for allegedly lifting key software code from Unix and dropping that code lock, stock, and barrel into Linux. That, the $1 billion suit claims, is proscribed by the agreement SCO has with IBM. Big Blue says it has done no such thing