What did SCO buy–Unix or the Brooklyn Bridge?
To the outsider, and even to me for some time, the various lawsuits involving the SCO Group follow a relatively simple story line. I’m not a lawyer, but after many interviews with the involved parties and lawyers, the case boils down to divergent interpretations of the subject matter. The Linux operating system was coming on strong. A group of individuals, some with a history of using litigation to extract wealth from other parties, started to behave like pit bulls. They clamped onto the Linux ecosystem in hopes of exploiting it for riches that for the most part have not accrued to anyone. Recall that Linux and open source are a free “David” in a world of “Goliaths.
