SCO Spreads Rumors About IBM Lawsuit

yeremein writes "SCO says it has found a new smoking gun in its battle with IBM. This 'bombshell' was not found in a court document; instead it came from a reporter's interview at SCOforum. The scoop? 'SCO alleges that since 2001, AIX has contained code for which IBM does not have a license. Moreover SCO claims to have found internal IBM e-mails in which IBMers acknowledge this shortcoming.' With the announcement comes a hefty boost in SCO's stock price." SCO is also going to bundle its worthless linux licenses with its Unix operating systems.

Comments

Re:So confused

[FooAtWFU]

How can they afford the legal costs of adding suit after suit with no resolution?

They've been paid off (indirectly) by Microsoft.

Wow, so whats the score now?

[SQLz]

Linux Community, smoking guns found: 2032
SCO, smoking guns found: 1

Oh yeah, we're in big trouble.

Re:I'm probably not the only one who is suspicious

[ronfar]

I like The Motley Fool, from their June 10th, 2004 article:

Here's the sad truth: SCO is working hard to erase whatever viability it had as a software provider. It is now little more than a shell -- a lawsuit with a fancy name. We saw this coming awhile back when the company's sugar daddy, hedge fund BayStar Capital, muscled the firm away from its languishing enterprise business and demanded it concentrate on the litigation. A legal victory looks highly unlikely, and even if a decision went SCO's way, the probable remedy would not be money for SCO, but a rewrite for Linux, something the open-source community would accomplish in the blink of an eye.

At 5 bucks a share, with almost nothing available to short, SCO isn't worth much of your investing effort. But it's definitely worth watching, if only as an example of the way a company can be run into the ground, taking investors along. -- SCO Keeps Sinking