Whither SCO? | Linux Today

Whither SCO?

Written By
SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Aug 21, 2007

“In 2003, the SCO boogeyman was scary. There were fears that SCO
could end the Linux dream much the same way, a generation earlier,
AT&T ended the dream for BSD.

“The SCO boogeyman has now been exposed to be a straw scarecrow
with no real substance.

“A judge has ruled that SCO didn’t fully control the Unix
copyright SCO had thought it had bought from Novell nearly a decade
ago. The judge also ruled that Novell could move to stop SCO from
pursuing its subsequent action against IBM on alleged intellectual
property infringement in Linux…”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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