SCO's Plan Examined

kevin@ank.com writes "In the best expose I've read since the original Halloween documents, Groklaw has links and analysis of Renaissance Ventures' rationale for investing in The SCO Group. Among other misrepresentations, SCO convinced Ren that SCO owned the root of the entire UNIX tree, and that Linux was just one branch of that tree. Linux gets a SCO tax... forever; or worst case, if Linux gets killed in the process, then so be it. Renaissance also estimated that IBM would have settled with SCO last April under the strength of SCO's claims, and the threat of terminating their UNIX license. Oops."

Comments

Everybody knows SCO's bussiness plan

[grasshoppa]

1.) Sue everybody ( including Granny McBride. Anybody else wonder if she's proud of her son? )
2.) ...
3.) Profit!

Serious, as much fun as SCO is, is anybody else feeling their faith in humanity drain away, little by little, day by day, because of morals like these?

Re:Wonder if they used this?

[alexandre]

http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html

here is the source for that (acyclic?) graph :-)

Re:Our company is switching again.

[kfg]

So switch to propriatary AIX instead and be safe.

KFG

Re:Wonder if they used this?

[mengel]

That is it!

Now we just need to get a hold of Mr. Eric Levenez and have him sue SCO for publishing an incorrectly marked up, derivative work of his Unix history diagram, I expect without his permission.