Re: SCO goes private!!!

["Al Wheeler" <user=1571@nabble.blu.org>]

David Kramer wrote: 
> 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. 
> 
> I guess that's the case.  What I've been thinking about is once the 
> dust settles, even if SCO wins, what next?  What will SCO, as a 
> company, do with it's time and it's money?  I can't imagine there will 
> be a line of customers beating down their doors for any products they 
> produce. 
>