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Showdown At The SCO Corral


Publication:	Information Week	Date:	Mar 18 2004

Can't you see it? A new version of the old Western movie is coming to a town near you. Entitled Showdown at the SCO Corral, this movie has the cast of characters assembled to create one of the most heated battles in the IT space in years.

In case you haven't seen the trailer to this film, let me give you a quick review. SCO is currently suing IBM, DaimlerChrysler, and AutoZone for violating SCO's Unix copyrights by using Linux. However, it has yet to be proven that SCO's intellectual property is part of the Linux operating system. So you now have companies being sued for possibly no reason whatsoever. Plus, there's passing innuendo that Microsoft may be funding SCO in its efforts. All the while, the lawyers are having a field day collecting gold from every party that's trying to protect themselves. Tell me this is not the perfect Western!