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SCO goes down and Sun’s in Trouble

The decision is in, and SCO has gone down in defeat. The U.S. District Court in Utah has ruled in favor of Novell in SCO vs. Novell, the keystone case in SCO’s long, and ultimately unsuccessful war against Linux.

The foundation of Judge Dale Kimball’s decision, that Novell, and not SCO owns the IP (intellectual property) rights to Unix, remains as solid as ever. Instead of showing that Linux violated SCO IP rights to Unix, SCO’s actions has lead to the revelation that it never owned the IP rights to Unix in the first place.

Read more at Practical Technology

July 17th, 2008 | Category: News

1 comment to SCO goes down and Sun’s in Trouble

  • GreyGeeK
    July 17th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    Oh, the irony of it all.

    Sun joins forces with Microsoft and gives MILLIONS to SCO in order to help SCO fund its lawsuit against IBM and capture control of Linux. Microsoft and Sun enter into an agreement not to sue each other, except that Sun leaves OpenOffice out of the agreement, knowing it can SELL StarOffice if OpenOffice is forced off the market by a Microsoft lawsuit.

    In exchange for those millions Sun gets an “additional license”, even though it already had a complete license to Unix, to improve Solaris, which it is now marketing against Linux and Novell’s SUSE.

    Now, Sun finds out that SCO’s licenses weren’t worth the paper they were written on. It has wasted MILLIONS, and now its plans to market Solaris against RH and Novell awaits Novell’s pleasure.

    Justice, it is said, is slow, but it grinds exceedingly fine. While grinding SCO into dust it has turned Sun into powder.