I had dabbled in Unix in the mid 80s and wound up evaluating SCO Unix to see if it would be a candidate for me to sell and support. Thought it was pretty good back then. Lost track of it for a few years, then it popped back into the news with a new business plan--litigation. They thought they'd sue everyone for using Unix or Linux under threat of patent violation. So, they took on IBM. So far, the strategy is costing a lot of money, but the potential payback looks weak.
SCO e-mail: No 'smoking gun' in Linux code. SCO engineer tells senior company executives that "we had found absolutely nothing ie no evidence of any copyright infringement whatsoever." [CNET News.com]
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