If you're going to put words in ALL CAPS, shouldn't you either learn to spell or to use a spell checker? The word is "nigh".

SCO's litigation with Novell started about
10 months after the IBM case started,
and not a couple of years as this
article claims. See the timeline at
Groklaw.

Iv'e heard about SCO at Oracle meeting in 1991. SCO Unix is older than any Linux.
Don't be naive.

Allegedly, (see www.groklaw.net), Microsoft has been bankrolling the SCO sue-fest against Novell/Linux all along. Even after Novell yielded to Microsoft's extortion/threats and signed a nice cooperative patent licensing agreement, Microsoft apparently continued to use SCO to repeatedly stab its new buddy Novell in the back while acting all friendly-like in press conferences and shaking hands, etc.

Now, of these two companies that dealt with Microsoft, one (SCO) is in ruins, and the other has been weakened by having to channel millions of dollars into defending itself against Microsoft's proxy-warrior.

Lesson to be learned: Do not deal with a company you cannot trust, and I have great difficulty seeing how anyone can trust Microsoft after this (and ISO/OOXML, etc.). There are lots of much more trustworthy alternatives for business partners or software vendors in the world.

What does a company management have to do to be forced into Chapter 7? Molest children? Chapter 11 is the most evil of all inventions, it effectively rewards idiotic management at the expense of investors' money by giving them a soft landing and telling them they cannot lose their personal privileges, whatever the reorganziation plans were they always involved the survival of the idiots that caused the failures in the first place.

SCO doesn't have a prayer. Control of the company and it's assets have been taken out of it's hands. THE END IS NIE!!!

The flying monkeys didn't have a choice. Maybe SCO was more Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, assuming (contra Stoppard) they knew.

Is 'Ding dong the wicked witch is dead" still in copyright?

No singing, just in case.

Most excellent analogy, my friend; I'm still chuckling. lol :D

You can't say Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
microsoft sitll about. SCO was just a
the Flying Monkeys.

Well organized.
Well written.
Dorothy's house indeed.