There have been a number of people who feel that SCO’s sole purpose in life is to annoy. Speaking for myself, I have felt this way for a long time now. Frankly, I don’t believe there is a case or ever was one at all.

OK, so we all knew that the chances of SCO winning its case against IBM concerning Unix code being placed in Linux were somewhere between zero and none.

SCO has never been able to publicly show any evidence for it, and some of its recent attempts to find evidence through eleventh-hour subpoenas of Oracle, Intel and The Open Group (an open-standards group that holds the Unix trademark) have come to nothing.

Still, I always thought that SCO would have something to show the court with its claims that IBM, or its subsidiary Sequent, violated its Unix licensing contracts in 217 separate areas.

I didn’t think any of these claims would amount to anything.

After all, SCO’s earlier attempts to prove that there was Unix code in Linux were quickly shown to be examples of code that had long been available under the BSD license.

And, if there was any Unix code in Linux, SCO, under its former name Caldera, may have placed it there itself… Source: Smoke, Mirrors and SCO

Tags: sco, linux, unix, ibm, caldera