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Re: SCO goes private!!!



 Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> IMHO, while SCO's assets probably have some good value, the prospects 
> for SCO as a going concern are not very good so there had to be 
> something valuable in the attack on Linux and OpenSource in general. 
> The creditors really don't care much about whether SCO survives as long 
> as they get their money. So if this reorganization essentially pays off 
> the creditors, SCO will be out of Chapter 11 after the revenue issues 
> are decided in Utah. What I see in this deal is Microsoft using SCO as 
> a means to attack Linux through the SCO vs. IBM (which is a direct 
> attack on Linux), and SCO vs. Novell. SCO vs. Novell did not start out 
> to be an Intellectual Property issue until Novell claimed it owned to 
> Unix copyrights and waived the rights to IBM. Initially, the SCO vs. 
> Novell was about United Linux. 


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