Breach of contract

Breach of contract

Posted Jan 23, 2004 15:57 UTC (Fri) by bgilbert (subscriber, #4738)
Parent article: Report from the SCO front

SCO seems to have painted themselves into an interesting corner. I suspect that if they filed a breach of contract suit, that would be a legal admission that as of right now, they don't have the copyrights they're accusing everyone else of violating. That probably puts them in a bunch of legal hot water. So, in the Novell filing, they have to act as though they already had the copyrights... a position which probably won't hold up very long when the case actually comes to trial.

SCO has bungled this whole thing. Instead of getting their ducks lined up before they did anything, they just went and sued IBM. That puts them in a defensive position every time someone comes along and points out a flaw they haven't thought of -- ultimately leading to this tangled mess of contradictory claims. While this makes them much easier to fight, I honestly wonder what they were thinking. Did they really think everyone would just fold and give them money? Or were they just pushing to be acquired by IBM, and when that failed they realized they actually had to make a go of this lawsuit thing?

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