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On June 16th, Darl McBride, President and CEO of The SCO Group pulled the trigger on IBM. "Over the last several months, SCO has taken all of the steps outlined in the Unix licensing agreements to protect its rights. Today SCO is requesting that the court enforce its rights with a permanent injunction. IBM no longer has the authority to sell or distribute AIX."
To which IBM's spokesperson Trink Guarino replied, "The AIX license is irrevocable and perpetual. We will try this case in the courts and win." Before her official announcement, she also said that AIX customers have nothing to worry about and should have no doubts about continuing to use AIX.
What McBride didn't say in SCO's annoucement was that SCO is now directly targeting Linus Torvalds, Linux's founder. SCO, while not taking direct action against Torvalds at this time, has declared that Torvalds is either unable or unwilling to check that submitted Linux code has not been stolen from SCO's Unix code.
The next day, June 17th, in a move that appears unconnected to SCO's legal actions, Linus announced in that he was taking a leave of absence from Transmeta and joining the Open Source Development Lab, a non-profit consortium of Linux-related companies, to work full-time on Linux. Torvald said, "It feels a bit strange to finally officially work on what I've been doing for the last twelve years, but with the upcoming 2.6.x release it makes sense to be able to concentrate fully on Linux."
And by the time SCO want us to pay...I think Linus Torvald already have kernel 2.6 ready to use (of course will be free).