I'm curious to see exactly what SCO shows in court, if they can prove that the literal cut-and-paste of their source code really happened.

Yeah, that will all play out in the courtroom, and I think they know that what they're currently doing won't hold up in court. But that will take years, and in the mean time, what they are hoping to do is make money, and in the process, I think they're hurting Linux as a whole.

It just sickens me that a company can use its power like this to extort money, when in reality, less than 1% of Linux users would even be using the lifted SMP code in question, which, by the way, hasn't been verified in court.

Do we really need various factions of Linux stakeholders to be fighting each other while Microsoft continues to grow stronger? I am sure that Microsoft execs are watching with smiles on their faces as Linux does its best to destroy itself from within.

And yes, I used way, way, way too many commas in most of my sentences above. Sorry, Bitt.