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Did SCO Actually Buy What it Thought?
Int27h quotes The Age saying "Just before Christmas last year, Novell announced publicly that SCO had known for some time that it did not receive all rights and ownership to UNIX technologies, despite public statements to the contrary. Novell has made public correspondence between lawyers representing both Novell and SCO." Lots of links and commentary on what continues to be one of the strangest stories in the history of Linux.
Did SCO Actually Buy What it CLAIMS? It is easy to employ a broad and self-serving interpetation of a contract to justify questionable actions.
Has it not occurred to people that this whole lawsuit is nothing more than a trick to allow SCO shareholders to make huge bucks dumping their stock before the whole company implodes?
How is this whole debacle any different than the plethora of over-hyped "dot-coms" that exploded with large claims, made a few people rich, and screwed over everyone else?
This whole deal is one huge PR-fueled stock scam. I feel sorry for anyone who is actually buying SCO stock that the executives and legal team are dumping... but what's worse is it very well may be US, with corrupt fund managers fueling this overblown stock. People should pay attention to what's keeping this stock higher than it should be, and if unbeknownst to us, some of the holdings in our IRAs are loaded with this crap.
Have we forgotten the quiet Open Group's stance in this copyright-driven debacle? They have steadfastly maintained that SCO does *not* own UNIX. There are many flavors of UNIX, and the contract between dispute between Novell and SCO/Caldera cannot possibly involve possible UNIX variations.