If you're following the ongoing SCO vs. Linux story, you'll be interested to learn that late yesterday, IBM filed a legal counter-claim against the SCO Group. According to an article at CNET, the IBM 45-page document court filing accuses SCO of violating the GNU General Public License (GPL) under which Linux is released, of violating four IBM software patents, and of interfering with IBM's business by… attempting to terminate IBM's license to AIX. The IBM complaint asks for monetary damages, as well as an injunction preventing SCO from shipping software which, IBM says, violates IBM patents.

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