Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Siblings? Novell vrs SCO

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 05:57:42 -0800, Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> http://www.thechannelinsider.com/article2/0,1759,1758104,00.asp
> 
> This short article is really one of the most interesting things I've
> heard about the whole Novell vrs SCO battle over Unix and Linux.

Uh...why exactly?  It's very poorly written and misses some important
parts of the story.

> Both are essentially children of the same crazy group of investors and
> executives and they've done a major about-face on their positions in the
> Linux battle. It's a shame that the family seems to be divided so bitterly.

But the one thing the article *does* make clear is that the only
connection between Novell and the Canopy Group was Ray Noorda, who
bailed on Novell back in 1996 (slightly late in the day, but so it
goes).  Noorda used to control Novell, but now he doesn't.  Noorda
used to control everything in the Canopy group, but apparently doesn't
do that now, either.

SCO is really a non-issue at this point.  They have a losing court
case against IBM and they know it.  By dragging out final certainty on
that, they have managed to get some nuisance settlements out of some
other companies.  Lawyers have made some money on this, but the irony
of the case now is that IBM has found ways to make the SCO case a way
to get information on who was doing what when behind the scenes in the
Linux universe.  When IBM has gotten the info it wants, it will choose
whether to squish SCO like a bug in court, or, if the lawyer fees for
that are high enough, suck up the dessicated remains of SCO for maybe
as much as $100 million or so.

jking
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