CNET News: Commentary: IBM Will Nullify SCO’s Linux Threat

“SCO Group has launched a high-profile, and ill-conceived,
effort to sue IBM and threaten its own customers to stop their
adoption of Linux. Should companies using Linux worry? No.
Forrester expects that IBM will build a consortium to pay off
SCO–or buy it outright.

“SCO’s headline-grabbing lawsuit against its customer IBM for $1
billion alleges that Big Blue stole SCO intellectual property and
gave it to the Linux open-source community. SCO has gone further to
threaten 1,500 companies that they might be liable for their use of
the Linux operating system. And Microsoft has inked a licensing
deal for SCO’s Unix code.

“So what’s going on? Forrester spoke recently with executives
from IBM, Microsoft and SCO to get the facts. Forrester believes
that SCO’s legitimate goal–to make money from its intellectual
property–has been overshadowed by the company’s publicity-laden
plot to raise its visibility and, hence, acquisition value…”

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