Can a Courtroom Be Fun?

Well, in this case, it might be a load of fun to watch in, say, a reality TV show setting. It involves Novell and SCO (you remember them, right?). In any case, Novell was one of the targets of the misguided barrage of lawsuits fired off by SCO in its bid to escape ultimate obscurity.

It didn’t work, of course. SCO has been losing ground in a big way, ever since they fired their first shot. They slipped from a second-rate player down to the point where I hear that the latest takeover bid came from a group of high school students doing a class project.

Now, however, Novell has gotten off a return shot. It may just be the final blow that sinks SCO so low that even high school students wouldn’t bite. Novell is suing SCO for trying to claim that they hold any Unix rights at all and other business no-no’s. If Novell wins, they would get a big chunk of change right out of the tender part of SCO’s hide (or what’s left of it).

I can’t think of many people in the IT community at large who would lose much sleep if it happens, either…

Read more…

[tags]novell,sco,lawsuit[/tags]