Besides, in my somewhat limited experience I have not seen company A purchase company B, only to be swallowed up whole by company C within weeks of these things happening.
When IBM bought Informix, it was only little (a few months at most - can't remember) after Informix bought Ardent Sotware (itself a young merger of VMark and Unidata)...
Wasn't that long ago!
And on the speculative front, I'll refuse to be 100% sure that Microsoft and/or Sun are behind SCO's actions until I see some sort of paper trail, but this makes me sure enough.
Well - I though the $50m investment sorted that out long ago... It _is_ microsoft funding it.
And I do hope they go through with the court case, as 1) the GPL desperately needs to prove itself with some case history, and 2) a long and drawn out lawsuit with IBM will take care of a few of those $50m.
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Besides, in my somewhat limited experience I have not seen company A purchase company B, only to be swallowed up whole by company C within weeks of these things happening.
When IBM bought Informix, it was only little (a few months at most - can't remember) after Informix bought Ardent Sotware (itself a young merger of VMark and Unidata)...
Wasn't that long ago!
And on the speculative front, I'll refuse to be 100% sure that Microsoft and/or Sun are behind SCO's actions until I see some sort of paper trail, but this makes me sure enough. Well - I though the $50m investment sorted that out long ago... It _is_ microsoft funding it. And I do hope they go through with the court case, as 1) the GPL desperately needs to prove itself with some case history, and 2) a long and drawn out lawsuit with IBM will take care of a few of those $50m.