What most people seem to miss is sco's ultimate goals and the strategy to achieve them. The easiest goal to achieve is to delay the spread of linux. A goal that is central to m$ strategy for maintaining its desktop monopoly. So they have common purpose. Note m$ purchase of a sco license as a excuse to fund the litigation. Note sco's purchase recently of m$ technology. Sco will need to file financial information by the end of the year. So they work out a "deal" with a front company for $50 million to make the books look good. Otherwise the the stock price would dive. Anyone else see the spector of the enron gambit occuring? The next goal is to avoid going to court at all cost. While they can delay they won't be able to prevent a civil court case from redhat from occuring. Read PJ's analysis of sco's attempt to delay on groklaw to understand how todays intention to go after fortune 1000 companies seals that fate. Redhat no doubt will alert its fortune 1000 customers.
What is also interesting is that after "discussions" with sgi last week, sco decided not to revoke sgi's unix license in exchange for sgi not bringing a suit. This is my best guess as to what happened. Sgi is a company that intends to stay in business while sco does not. During sgi's audit of both unix and linux kernel code, sgi showed that sco had a very weak case and that to pursue a weak case over 200 lines of code would not help them in there ibm or redhat law suite. It just wasn't worth it for sco to push the issue.
I'm happy sco will be attempting to charge big companies for a license from sco on copyrighted property that sco refuses to prove it owns. It opens up so many more avenues for counter suites, fraud charges and SEC inquires. This is a great time to be alive!
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What most people seem to miss is sco's ultimate goals and the strategy to achieve them. The easiest goal to achieve is to delay the spread of linux. A goal that is central to m$ strategy for maintaining its desktop monopoly. So they have common purpose. Note m$ purchase of a sco license as a excuse to fund the litigation. Note sco's purchase recently of m$ technology. Sco will need to file financial information by the end of the year. So they work out a "deal" with a front company for $50 million to make the books look good. Otherwise the the stock price would dive. Anyone else see the spector of the enron gambit occuring? The next goal is to avoid going to court at all cost. While they can delay they won't be able to prevent a civil court case from redhat from occuring. Read PJ's analysis of sco's attempt to delay on groklaw to understand how todays intention to go after fortune 1000 companies seals that fate. Redhat no doubt will alert its fortune 1000 customers.
What is also interesting is that after "discussions" with sgi last week, sco decided not to revoke sgi's unix license in exchange for sgi not bringing a suit. This is my best guess as to what happened. Sgi is a company that intends to stay in business while sco does not. During sgi's audit of both unix and linux kernel code, sgi showed that sco had a very weak case and that to pursue a weak case over 200 lines of code would not help them in there ibm or redhat law suite. It just wasn't worth it for sco to push the issue.
I'm happy sco will be attempting to charge big companies for a license from sco on copyrighted property that sco refuses to prove it owns. It opens up so many more avenues for counter suites, fraud charges and SEC inquires. This is a great time to be alive!