The Great SCO Swindle Winding Down, But Will They All Get Away With It? | Linux Today

The Great SCO Swindle Winding Down, But Will They All Get Away With It?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 22, 2007

[ Thanks to Peter N. M.
Hansteen
for this link. ]

“Poor Dan Lyons. He thought like a bookmaker and wrote what he
thought was right.

“You see, a few years back, when Caldera was still Caldera, that
company had successfully sued a large corporation and won. Then
Caldera changed its name to SCO and sued another huge corporation.
Dan the bookie thought it was a sure bet, and started cheering them
on. Four years on, the sure bet went south on a technicality. They
did not actually own the code they had accused others of stealing.
At least that’s the way I read his Snowed by SCO article over at
Forbes…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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