As open source and intellectual property licensing are two hot Sun Bloggers topics, I thought that I would recommend an article titled "The Linux Killer", published in this month (July 2004) issue of WIRED magazine. It talks about SCO President and CEO Darl McBridge who, by claiming intellectual property rights on Unix operating systems, is aggressively sueing major Linux distributers for non authorized derivative code appropriation, even targeting directly their customers. See SCO intellectual property license published on its web site (access might be slow, they are said to be under frequent deny of service attacks ;)). In a related article, Linus Torvalds is also blamed of not having enforced a strict copyright assignment policy for Linux code contributors.