So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Groklaw considers the future of SCO. "Novell's recent Answer and Counterclaims has some asking, now what happens? What does it mean? To help you out, I found two articles that I think grasp the possibilities. First, there's Frank Hayes's article, Novell to SCO Group: Drop Dead. At least one reporter has comprehended the magnitude of what Novell has done, I see, and found a simple way to express SCO's worst case scenario. Hayes begins like this: "You might not know it from some of the coverage, but The SCO Group now appears to be facing annihilation in its lawsuits against IBM, Novell, Red Hat and Linux users AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler.""

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So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 4, 2005 19:46 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Jebus.. What a mess.

It's realy very bad that such a venerable Unix company like this has to meet it's end in such a horrible way. SCO provided a relatively inexpensive Unix for x86 for companies all over the place.. paved the way for Linux in many cases and it's reliability and usefullness kept many companies from ever moving over to NT.

Especially bad that it has to be merged with a previously popular Linux company; caldera.. I remember seeing their name all over the place in respect to SMP code in the kernel.

But I guess if your going to play with fire, your going to get burned. Especially when your so full of shit like they were.

So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 4, 2005 20:33 UTC (Thu) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link]

The history is a little mixed up here. The SCO you are talking about still exists, it's called "Tarantella" now, and no longer sells Unix. The SCO we all hate didn't merge with Caldera, it *is* Caldera, having changed its name immediately before suing IBM.

And yes, Caldera employees did some useful things back in the day. But it's too late now to bemoan the fate of "Old SCO" -- that company is long since gone.

So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 4, 2005 20:39 UTC (Thu) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link]

Actually Sun bought Tarantella about a month before they released Open Solaris. I guess it still exists but you can't buy shares of Tarantella stock etc.

So, Now What Happens to SCO? (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 5, 2005 10:20 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Not realy mixed up at all.

I know about "Tarantella" and all that. Always have known.

How much of the original SCO originization stayed with the management when they went to create tarantella? Most of it stayed were it always has been, developing and supporting unix operating systems.

The biggest screw up was years ago when they priced Unix wayyy out of the pocket book of programmers that wanted a unix bad enough they started writing their own.

NOT EVEN CLOSE!

Posted Aug 5, 2005 4:46 UTC (Fri) by huffd (guest, #10382) [Link]

I read the article and this isn't nearly over.

Don't forget the other villains Microsoft and Sun.

Both paid SCOX for the bogus licensing fees, both are guilty because they both knew that SCOX didn't own the code they were leasing, (translation bribery).

Does that mean that Novell can revoke Suns right to Unix? Consider those implications.

Will the development of compatibility software by Microsoft be halted by Novell?

If any of the litigants in this escapade can forge a link to corruption or conspiracy Microsoft may have to shell out a few billion, but Sun, Sun's days are numbered. With SCOX out of the way the next target will be Sun, without a doubt.

NOT EVEN CLOSE!

Posted Aug 5, 2005 18:30 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

No, Novell cannot revoke Sun's right to Unix, any more than SCO (or Novell) could revoke IBM's right. Both have perpetual licenses, going back to the days when AT&T owned Unix, and the people AT&T sold out to have no right to change that.