Is this the end for SCO?

[Luisks]

The future of the company SCO is in the hands of a jury in Salt Lake City (Utah), which is deliberating on these days the lawsuit filed by the company against Novell over ownership of the Unix operating system.

The story behind this case dates back to 2004 when SCO sued Novell ensuring that the latter had sold the rights to the operating system (in 1995). On the Novell side defended on the grounds that what was sold at the time were the rights of the service, not Unix.

At the time the case has generated significant buzz in the Linux world, because SCO sent letters to companies to develop the various distributions of the Operating System of the penguin. In these letters the company required to pay certain royalties for using Linux (because it is based on Unix).

In these years the company managed to avoid bankruptcy and recorded a major legal victory, after a Federal Court Judge of Appeal reversed the decision of Judge Dale Kimball of the District of Utah, which was granted rights to Novell Unix and Unixware. Shortly after the company suffered a further setback, the product of the output of Darl McBride (CEO of the company).

Attention now focuses on the decision these days take the jury, not only by the $ 215 million required by the company for damages, but the fact that if he get a positive result, you can relive its lawsuit against IBM and then against all Linux distributions.

Link: Is this the end for SCO? http://blogs.computerworld.com/15837/is_this_the_end_for_sco​

 

[Passerby]

i hope SCO just goes down, they have just been a thorn in the side of companies that actually do something useful with unix like novell and red hat.

and really does anyone even know the name of one of there OS's without looking it up.

 

[Ezekiel]

I'd like to say how glad I am it's over, except....I have a feeling it's not yet. *sigh*

 

[trykael]

Microsoft has dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into SCO to try and slow down the adoption of open source. I figure they've set it back about a decade, but there's no way to stop the trend. This just opens things up and I would expect to see open source become much more common in the next 2-5 years. Heck, Microsoft has been quietly building an open source OS for a couple of years now, so even they can see the writing on the wall.

 

[Passerby]

Microsoft has dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into SCO to try and slow down the adoption of open source. I figure they've set it back about a decade, but there's no way to stop the trend. This just opens things up and I would expect to see open source become much more common in the next 2-5 years. Heck, Microsoft has been quietly building an open source OS for a couple of years now, so even they can see the writing on the wall.

pretty much microsoft rather lose there user to apple than to open-source linux distros.

cause mac is even more closed than windows and people still tend to buy a lot of MS software for macs. but on the side of linux even if MS did provide software people would not buy it anyways.

edit:

by the way this was posted on a SuSE linux machine