Another response by some members of the open source community at Groklaw to SCO's threats against Linux appears online here. It is well written and addresses the relevant issues in a calm, reasoned manner.

Also, near the end, the letter mentions the City of St. George, Utah as using Linux. I was pleased to see the community where I live mentioned. I suspect that St. George was mentioned in part because of the St. George Police Department's use of the open source Linux operating system on computers used in the 911 dispatch center. (See this 2002 article at Linux Today about St. George's use of Linux at the 911 call center.)

They could have added that Washington County, Utah also uses Linux on their network. I know several people who work for the county's information systems department, and they have told me a little bit about how they use Linux there.

The article could also safely have added that Dixie State College of Utah (also in St. George, Utah) uses open source software. I know that Linux is used on some of their systems, as well as FreeBSD. I have good friends who work at the college, and have even done some consulting work for the college, assisting in setting up a FreeBSD server as the back-end for student e-mail.

So once again, SCO, I issue the challene: Show us the code!