[$] The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later

On March 7, 2003, a struggling company called The SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, claiming that thesuccess of Linux was the result of a theft of SCO's technology. Twodecades later, it is easy to look back on that incident as a somewhathumorous side-story in the development of Linux. At the time, though, itshook our community to its foundations. It is hard to overestimate howmuch the community we find ourselves in now was shaped by a ridiculouslawsuit 20 years ago.