SCO going Chapter 11

[Jerry Feldman]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:11:03 -0400
"Matt Shields" <mattboston-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I hope the judge denies their bankruptcy protection and lets their
> creditors go after them.  I hope they die a slow and painful death for
> all the harm they've cause other companies.
>=20
> And to think at one time in my life I actually recommended their products.


Did you recommend:
1. SCO Classic - eg. Santa Cruz
2. The SCO Group - Current
3. Caldera before they bought the Unix division of Santa Cruz.

Here is the Groklaw coverage
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=3D20070914152904577

I seriously doubt any judge is going to deny Ch 11 protection.=20

However I can't believe that Darl McBride & Co., Boies Schiller, and
the other attorneys actually believed that The SCO group owned the
copyrights when it was reasonably clear that Novell did not transfer
the copyrights to The Santa Cruz Operation. It could be that Santa Cruz
(later Tarantella, now part of Sun) may have misled the Caldera
management when Caldera purchased the Unix group from SCO Classic. This
could lead to another lawsuit against Sun (who owns Tarantella).=20

Both the IBM and the Novell lawsuits focus on events that occurred prior
to the purchase. Part of the original case against Novell was with
SuSE's United Linux contract, and Novell pushed that into arbitration.
That was a contract that was signed by Caldera before they bought SCO.=20

In any case, the remaining portion of the SCO vs. Novell is whether SCO
owes Novell royalties on the SVRX and if so, how much (Re: SCO's
Microsoft and Sun contracts).=20

In any case, the SCO vs. Novell and SCO vs. IBM cases are very
important to both the Linux community as well as the entire Open Source
community. In the case of Linux, SCO claimed the rights to license and
receive royalties on Linux, but they also challenged the GPL. I think
their GPL challenge has been largely pushed out, but could come back in
the IBM case  if it ever sees the light of day.=20

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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