More importantly, historically, SCO has done its homework before making legal claims and have therefore been extremely successful in this arena. Obviously, this does not guarantee success in court, but it suggests the suit is by no means frivolous
As far as IBM is concerned, as opposed to being an 800 LB gorilla, IBM is an 800 LB elephant. Based on their recent defeat in court regarding their discriminatory pension plan, they obviously cannot dance. Furthermore, IBM's position on the matter is due to the fact that IBM is betting the farm on Linux. Failing to innovate on its own, IBM sees Linux as the only technology out there that will allow it to compete with, as an IBM manager put it, "our main competitor", which is Microsoft.
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More importantly, historically, SCO has done its homework before making legal claims and have therefore been extremely successful in this arena. Obviously, this does not guarantee success in court, but it suggests the suit is by no means frivolous
As far as IBM is concerned, as opposed to being an 800 LB gorilla, IBM is an 800 LB elephant. Based on their recent defeat in court regarding their discriminatory pension plan, they obviously cannot dance. Furthermore, IBM's position on the matter is due to the fact that IBM is betting the farm on Linux. Failing to innovate on its own, IBM sees Linux as the only technology out there that will allow it to compete with, as an IBM manager put it, "our main competitor", which is Microsoft.