Derek Bodner’s Blog

I can’t help but sit here and be amused by the situation. Surely I feel bad for some of the honest workers that are will lose their job as a result of this. They don’t deserve that. But I can’t say I see an sympathy for Darl McBride or any other officers of The SCO Group. From SCO:

“The revenue from this business has been declining over the last several years, primarily as a result of increased competition from alternative operating systems, particularly Linux, and from the negative publicity of the SCO litigation.

“We believe the inclusion of Unix code and derivative works in Linux has been a contributor to the decline in our Unix business because users of Linux generally do not pay for the operating system itself, but pay for services and maintenance.

“The Linux operating system competes directly with our OpenServer and UnixWare products and has taken significant market share from these products”

So let’s see if we get this straight. SCO makes a claim that Linux is stealing its code. They then never back up that claim. Make frivolous lawsuits based around that claim. Still never provide any of the infringing code. And then place the blame on the demise on the company around the bad publicity that they themselves generated?

Oh, that’s rich.

Poor SCO. There’s viable competition. Heaven forbid.

Then, they complain about the success of Linux? When they themselves offered a once successful Linux distribution? Would they have even been in this position if it wasn’t for the success of Linux?

Hey Darl. Just like we said to Microsoft. SHOW US THE CODE. You have failed to do so, and you have failed because you based the entire existence of your company around these lawsuits. I don’t expect someone to actually take responsibility for what they do, but at least quit your whining about it.

Honestly, I don’t think they ever expected to win. It wouldn’t surprise me if when they started the lawsuit threats they knew they had no shot. Considering SCO’s financial position at the time they very well may have been hoping for IBM to buy them out to make the threat go away (or at the very least, settle out of court). They rolled the dice, tried to blackmail the competition. It didn’t work. Now please, leave quietly.

Link: ZDNet