Ding, dong SCO is dead
Though SCO still has the option to appeal, a federal district court judge Dale Kimball has now effectively written its death sentence in the form of a somewhat blistering final judgment (PDF), as Groklaw reports.
SCO, once the bane of the open-source world, is effectively dead. The company, which long ago stopped trying to make useful products and instead morphed into a boutique law firm, has seen its revenue slide into oblivion while Novell, which stood up to SCO and has now won in court, has seen its Linux revenue jump.
Lesson? You can only milk a weak intellectual property claim for so long. Ars Technica gives the details of the final judgment against SCO:
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The little SCO that cried wolf
blogs.computerworld.com: Once upon a time, there was a little company named SCO that lived in the town of Unix. Now, one day SCO went into the woods. And, horrors, it ran back into town shouting that that the big, bad wolves–IBM, Red Hat, and Novell–had attacked it with their big nasty Linux penguin buddy, Tux the Destroyer! And-oh no!–they had stolen SCO’s picnic basket of Unix intellectual property goodies.
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.
But, SCO said, “Oh, were not a Linux company now. Pay no attention to what we said and did before. Today, were telling you, cross our heart and hope to die, that Linux stole source from us and that’s no lie!”
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