While I'm no lawer or familiar with takeovers/buyouts, whats stopping from IBM buying SCO Group outright? Last I checked, SCO Group was only worth about $20M. IBM looses this much money when the CEO catches a cold.
If anyone from on high in IBM is reading this, take over SCO Group, Fire the executive suite, and to throw a dash of salt on the wound, GPL all the unix (and otherwise) source code! That would end any question that might still be present about the IP rights of SCO Group's code (because now its GPL), and provide Open Source developers some very interesting and exciting stuff to work with. IBM would also assume ownership of SCO Group's portfolio of patents.
If there really is anything worth while in SCO's source libraries, it would be available for inclusion in future software.
Contemplate that one IBM - a $1B lawsuit (plus legal fees) versus a $20M buyout and possibly even have something to gain by it!
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While I'm no lawer or familiar with takeovers/buyouts, whats stopping from IBM buying SCO Group outright? Last I checked, SCO Group was only worth about $20M. IBM looses this much money when the CEO catches a cold. If anyone from on high in IBM is reading this, take over SCO Group, Fire the executive suite, and to throw a dash of salt on the wound, GPL all the unix (and otherwise) source code! That would end any question that might still be present about the IP rights of SCO Group's code (because now its GPL), and provide Open Source developers some very interesting and exciting stuff to work with. IBM would also assume ownership of SCO Group's portfolio of patents. If there really is anything worth while in SCO's source libraries, it would be available for inclusion in future software. Contemplate that one IBM - a $1B lawsuit (plus legal fees) versus a $20M buyout and possibly even have something to gain by it!