In March, SCO Group filed a megasuit against IBM, claiming the computer giant stirred SCO Unix code into the Linux melting pot. When Big Blue didn't buckle, SCO raised the stakes to $3 billion and revoked IBM's license to ship Unix systems. The last gasp of a failing software outfit with no prospects in the marketplace, or a legal coming of age for open source? SCO chief exec Darl McBride swears his bitter medicine will do us good.

WIRED: Give me the summary brief.
McBRIDE: The world is moving to a Unix operating environment, and SCO owns the intellectual property rights to it. When you snap off a branch from the Unix tree and try to graft it onto the Linux tree, that's out-of-bounds. It's time to step up and claim the ownership rights that are rightly ours.

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