I imagined that SCO might have some wierd strategy and now we know. In some alternate reality SCO owns intellectual property that others developed. They even escape ip thief status by claiming anything ever run under any unix is theirs. But you blow it with you statement about ideas behind the implementation. IBM and Sequent had the ideas and owned the IP before it was implemented in Unix or Linux. They can donate or withhold the IP pretty much as they wish. SCO picked the wrong dog for a legal fight. The management at SCO will be lucky to get out of this with the clothes on their back.