SCO is completely irrelevant.

They have no products or services that anyone wants or needs. They won't live long enough for the Novel ruling to be denied and IBM's lawyers to destroy them. I can't see anyone being willing to invest in a company that has nothing of value, just to help them appeal a ruling they lost. Will someone please kill and bury the "Zombie" company now please??

Doesn't anyone have a stake?

I see two irrelavant companies bickering over money whilst they hemorrage it.

In the end, this case will go down as two companies who, once on top, didn't know when to quit, irritated everyone in IT, and only padded the wallets of the lawyers & lawfirms they hired.

I personally don't know anyone with a direct relationship with SCO (or Novell for that matter) - but specifically with SCO, they're holding onto a name for money's sake and no good ever comes from that. If the simply closed up shop and liquidated their assets to anyone other than Microsoft, I'd be extremely pleased to see them disappear and an era end.

As far as Novell, if they have life in the future -- who knows. SuSE is the most interesting product they offer right now. Without the SCO thorn in their side, perhaps Novell would be in a better position. Time will tell. 


Amusing article, and the levels of schadenfreude read new heights.. One-legged entities shouldn't start ass-kicking contests. 

However, with regard to:

"Given a chance, they will launch SCO on a one-way journey into the heart of the Sun, then start looking for whomever they can find that put it up to this Linux lawsuit scam."

..I have to say, I beg to differ. There's enough of a dayglo obvious trail of suspicious circumstantial evidence leading back to Redmond, littered with the corpses of sock puppets. No, the impossible thing would be to prove it in a way that you could make stick in court. Remember, the DoJ couldn't make allegations that a certain software house was an abusive monopoly stick, simply because they had more and better lawyers- and they managed to laugh it off until uncle Dubyah got in and made all the nasty legal problems go away. IBM's lawyers might have fewer fatigue and pity problems than the terminator, but they are seriously outclassed when it comes to the quality and quantity of team MS and its legal artillery. MS is fricken' huge- a marketing and litigation outfit with a software wing (these days). They play hardball. IBM aren't stupid enough to pick a fight like that unless they have some major aces up their sleeve such that even a bought legal system can't stop them.

The funny thing is the assumption from some folks that SCO were some kind of evil genius masterminds. Nope- just utterly unscrupulous, greedy dillholes. A few weasel words to set them going, point them in the right direction, and their avarice does the rest. Patsies, they did it to themselves (and that's what really hurts).