Torvalds Speaks Out on SCO, Linux:
SCO alleges that you need to focus more on getting clarification as to where the code that goes in the Linux kernel comes from. Do you have any plans to change the current Linux development model?
No. I allege that SCO is full of it, and that the Linux process is already the most transparent process in the whole industry. Let’s face it, nobody else even comes close to being as good at showing the evolution and source of every single line of code out there. The only party that has had serious problems clarifying what they are talking about is SCO, and now when details start emerging like with RCU, it’s clearly about IP that they had nothing to do with, and don’t even own. I’m sure that they are confident that they own the collective work of Unix, but that’s a separate thing entirely legally from being the actual copyright owner of any specific section of code.