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The first big Linux lawsuitThe first big Linux lawsuitPosted Mar 13, 2003 10:15 UTC (Thu) by addw (guest, #1771)Parent article: The first big Linux lawsuit We are fortunate that the first attack was against a defendant with the resources and interest to defend itself I think that it is more of a case of going after a defendant that might have the funds to pay a $1 billion judgement. Even then, I don't think that they are really after a win in the courts: they want to be bought out by someone, IBM is just about the only company with a Linux interest that could afford to. SCO is a company who's product has been overtaken by the competition, it has little to sell, it's shares are in terminal decline. How does the company generate any return to the share holders ? Pursuading another company to buy it out is very much the last chance that they have. I note that SCO only floated on the stock market in the mid 1990s. The stock has been in decline almost since the IPO. I find the timing of that float interesting: are we to really believe that the SCO directors (and, at that time, major shareholders) were totally ignorant of the potential future impact of Linux on the long term viability of SCO ?
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