Jonathan Corbet is a fantastic writer. I like this quote from him in a recent interview (my emphasis):
“Nearly ten years later, I remain struck by what the whole SCO debacle revealed about our community. As a group, we studied up on legal issues and fought this attack on every front imaginable. Meanwhile, the kernel code base was put under a microscope and millions of dollars were spent trying to find legally questionable code, and there was none to be found. Who would have believed that a loose development process involving thousands of people would be so squeaky clean?“