Z:gnu-www-ja-sco-gnu-linux--f87cfb-SCO's contract dispute with IB/en

SCO's contract dispute with IBM has been accompanied by a smear campaign against the whole GNU/Linux system. But SCO made an obvious mistake when it erroneously quoted me as saying that &ldquo;Linux is a copy of Unix.&rdquo; Many readers immediately smelled a rat&mdash;not only because I did not say that, and not only because the person who said it was talking about published ideas (which are uncopyrightable) rather than code, but because they know I would never compare Linux with Unix.