Remember SCO? Yeah, me neither. But the company that once made a name for itself by existing solely to sue people now owes it’s biggest victim, Novell, $2.54 million plus interest.
The story breaks down like this: SCO believed that Novell and other companies who used Linux were actually using UNIX SVRX source code illegally inside the Linux kernel. After independently verifying the code, SCO discovered that Linux was free of SRVX code and that in fact Novell owned the rights to SRVX. Bloops!
This garbage has been going on since 2003 and finally SCO is getting its final day in court although it’s not getting quite what it bargained for. SCO is currently going bankrupt and can’t pay the amount, but a trust has been set up containing $625,000 which Novell will receive once the company is dismantled.
SCO one had a great future. They threw it all away on a pointless war and an are now financially bankrupt.
It is a shame that they decided to waste time on suing rather than focusing on their product. I used SCO a long time ago and it was not 1/2 bad. It needed a lot of work, but hat potential.
This is exactly why trolling should be illegal.
Jail time is far better than $2.54 million.
With the current financial climate globally I’d be happy to take the money.
bahahaha, up your a$$, SCO!
Nice ending for Darl McBride’s SCO, the Ebenezer Scrooge of Tech.
I remember selling SCO Unix back in 1993 and having a great relationship with the company’s field facing team. Taking a wrong turn … and lots of them makes for a sad story.
So where’s Mugro$soft when they need them? ;)
Masterful logo. Nicely done :)
Proof read much?
good to hear that finally comes out what we all hoped…!
SCO UNIX and with INGRESS on SCO UNIX were popular once, I have developed many applications on them. Sorry to see them go off market. Same with Novell Netware and FoxPro on Netware. As they die, we are forced to redo same applications on Microsoft, Linux with Oracle.
Good! They certainly got what was coming to them.