"Once big, loud and proud, SCO has laid itself low--low on cash,
low on business and, most crucially of all, low in the esteem of
its competitors and customers. It got into this pickle either out
of desperation, or maybe from an actual belief that IBM had stolen
some of its intellectual property, or most probably an amalgam of
the two.
"The company's sales figures were not looking good, but at least
it had some copyrights and patents it could cash in. Is that a
viable survival strategy...?"