Understanding Microsoft's Linux code shocker In a move even the software maker notes is unusual, the company is contributing code for three drivers for inclusion in the open-source operating system.

SCO Group says copyrighted code has made its way into Linux, the popular open-source OS. If true, the open-source community could find its hard-won gains threatened.

It compared source code from the Unix System V release 4.1 software that SGI has licensed from SCO with a version of the Linux kernel released this June, SGI said.

Most recently, Coverity scanned 7.6 million lines of code in Linux 3.8 and found a defect density of just .59. A copy of Coverity’s full report is available as a free download.

Microsoft's public disdain of Linux stretches back more than two years. In March 2001, Microsoft Senior Vice President Craig Mundie said releasing source code into the public domain is "unhealthy ...

SCO says proprietary source code underlying Unix has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. SCO critics argue that because the company shipped a Linux product under an open-source license ...

For months SCO has claimed that an exhaustive examination of the Linux source code has revealed software that has been copied line-by-line from its Unix System V code base. The Linux community has ...