The Little SCO That Cried Wolf | Linux Today

The Little SCO That Cried Wolf

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Nov 24, 2008

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“And, what do you know? People paid attention! They
came from all around and said, “You poor little company!” SCO was
so happy. No one had paid so much attention to it in years. So SCO
decided to sue the big bad wolves, saying that its Unix
intellectual property had been stolen by that mean Linux penguin.

“Now, this was kind of funny since SCO was once Linux’s best
buddy. They used to play together. They used to work together. Why,
SCO/Caldera’s programmers even helped write Linux.”

Complete
Story

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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