[Golden Eagle]

It's a shame our politicans don't govern so wisely.

Our politicians have zero control over whether the Chinese download Linux from some European website. What matters is, Linux was not a good choice for them but until recently, and possibly because IBM illegally took Unix technology and put it in Linux, making state of the art software available to them without paying for it and completely outside of US jurisdiction. You may be comfortable with that, however many aren't.

[steve50]

If you mean the SCO code, that appears to have been over rated. Linux is willing to remove and replace it with independent source code.

[adam_az]

Can you point out exactly which parts of UNIX intellectual property IBM integrated into linux?

The kernel as at http://www.kernel.org

Please point out exactly which source files and lines contain the offending code.

Otherwise, you are just repeating baseless FUD.