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Story: SCO wants to undermine Linux foundation

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"SCO shook the computing world when it began its legal action against IBM in March."

It seems more accurate to say they shook newsrooms filled by people lacking any clue about merits of SCO's increasingly weird "legal" arguments -- among those most odd the assertion that the GPL conflicts with the Constitution. Please pass the bong.

If there were a real case here, Microsoft would be buying out SCO at virtually any price to create Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt with respect to Linux. They have not, and SCO has instead sold position to its own lawyers.

Proprietory UNIX code now offers little more than nuisance value, having long since passed its sell-by date.

SCO's gullible management, conned into believing it has a "case", has eagerly swallowed the hook in hopes of salvaging value where none actually exists.

In the end, lawyers hired by SCO will sell off its assets at a fat profit to themselves in legal fees. As Mrs. Marple said, "Things are not always what they appear."

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