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Well, they’ve finally reaped the full value of their actions. SCO have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection 5 years after making claims that Linux violated their patents because of code supplied by IBM. They never produced any evidence in court of the violations and carried out a cynical campaign to try and extract money from companies using Linux with the promise of not suing them if their claims were upheld. This was pure protection racketeering and only a few paid up - not even enough to cover their massive legal bills.

Many people seem unaware that this SCO has nothing to do with the Santa Cruise Operation that once contributed hugely to the development of Unix back in the 80’s. That company was bought out a long time ago and the purchaser changed their name to SCO to try and reap some of the positive image, but they’ve never really been anything other than a destroyer of value and never done anything except threaten people with lawsuits.

The final blow was when a court ruled that, although they bought UNIX from Novell in 1993, somehow they did not buy the copyrights along with it (leaving open the question of what they did actually buy.) A company of lawyers, and not very good ones at that.

RIP SCO.