Blogging Ottinger (tim)Bad Moves Collapse SCO
The news has been full of it, but SCO is done. I was following the whole SCO v. Linux thing quite a while ago, and we all knew that it was baseless and groundless and hopeless. We wondered at a company that used to be important having slid so far that they now wanted to make their living off of suing people. We speculated about where the money would come from to pay the lawyers, and we received little confirmations along the way. It was, of course, a fiasco.
Now they admit that bad publicity and Linux success are to blame. The publicity was from their baseless attack on the Linux community, so really it’s all the same thing. They tried to take on the wrong enemy, publicly and poorly, and a company that used to provide a useful product is now dead by their own choices.
Sadly, the only postscript is “told ya so”.
