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hilarious -	by: pinniped
SCO had a Linux business precisely because UNIX licences were on the decline. Then little Darl came along and decided to shoot the legs off SCO's core business then tried to run a protection racket. Nice strategy - attack the technology that you depend on for your living. I can just imagine the "Darl Gambit" in chess - that's when you lose your pieces for no apparent reason and hope that the opponent will place his king in a position for a checkmate.

Re: hilarious -	by: ophis
Well said. I only have to add that Darl's realization that his old UnixWare stuff just cannot compete with Linux, Solaris or even AIX may perhaps be understood to indicate that by now he's taken his first courageous steps on the long and winding road back into reality.

well, it IS Linux's fault	by: sakuramboo
if Red Hat, IBM and Novell just copied code like SCO claimed, SCO would not have had to file chapter 11. ;)

Blame Yourself	by: Sparhawk
For building a revenue model based on litigation rather than innovation.

Re: Blame Yourself	by: Rich Lohman
I was waiting for someone to say it. I work with a company that developed technologies and processes for electronically processing checks through the Federal Reserve. What was our first hurdle? Not competing against large financial service processors with big dollars to throw at new ideas. Not Federal regulation. But that little band of lawyer pukes that saw an opportunity to patent a process - not a technology, but a process. Now, companies like ours who put the sweat into turning out real innovation have to deal with patent violations from these losers that couldn't code a "Hello World!" program. Sorry, Darl, but you've got no sympathy. Linux got you down, there Bunky? Hey, if you can't innovate, evacuate. There's probably a law school nearby where you can get a law degree. I'm sure you'll do just fine!

SCO is not a dirty word	by: CMonster3
Frist off -- die sco die! That said, SCO (formerly Caldera Systems) seemed to be a decent company, that is until acquired by Caldera -- the good folks at Caldera Systems changed their name to SCO, I believe, for the express purpose of litigation. Sound impossisble? Does anyone remember the history of DRDOS? Long ago, in a galaxy far away, Caldera Systems acquired the rights to Digital Research DOS, a better-than MSDOS disk operating system --unfortunately DRDOS never caught on, in part due to the Microsoft monopoly -- Caldera started litigation with Microsoft Meanwhile Cladera marketed its own Linux -- anyone remember Caldera Openlinux? (This Linux user started with Caldera Openlinux 1.3, kernel 1.2 I believe) By the time Caldera Openlinux reached version 2.3 they had already integrated the KDE desktop, and it came standard with things like Star Office, realplayer, flash, adobe reader -- AND Wine preconfigured (which "almost" could run *.exe files - here was a boxed version that did most of what I needed). BUT after some years of litigation, Microsoft finally settled with Caldera over DRDOS - Caldera made millions $$ off the deal (taste of blood) ...and strangely enough. practically overnight, Caldera gave up marketing its boxed desktop Linux, deciding rather to concentrate on the corporate market... (had those MS millions come with hidden strings?) Next up as you all know, came the present situation and SCO became known as a dirty word -- was MS now calling in the rest of those strings? MS money always seems to come at a price - whatever happened to Corel's Linux products anyway -- I mean after Microsoft invested some (how much was it?) $180 million?