If Iceweasel steals Firefox's marketshare it obviously won't be a benefit to them whether Firefox can use that code or not. You seem to base one's succes on whether you can use the product that replaced them for free or not, in other words according to you SCO should be thrilled that they can use Linux even though it has completely destroyed their Unix business. Yep you probably do think that, business profits mean nothing, free software is all that mattersm just like Stallman believes..
Firefox gets free coding work, becomes the better browser. Plus, Iceweasel (BTW, who thought of that stupid name? He must have hated Firefox) will only be for Linux, and mainly for that distro, and will therefore always have a very small marketshare. The Mozilla Foundation can't lose either way.
You seem to base one's succes on whether you can use the product that replaced them for free or not
In case you haven't been reading, I base it on whether it is a better product.
according to you SCO should be thrilled that they can use Linux even though it has completely destroyed their Unix business
You forget that SCO was a Linux company, and they bought the UNIX business so they could get access to the UNIX distribution channels in order to themselves push Linux through to the high-value enterprise customers.
Yep you probably do think that, business profits mean nothing
SCO (actually, Caldera), planned to do exactly what IBM is doing now with Linux, only they got new management that decided the Lawsuit Lottery would give them better "business" profits than actually conducting business.