@DaveP
A very very sad day, and people are just laughing it off and calling SCO idiots. They are far from idiots, they may and are probably incorrect in their claims but they are clever enough to know it does not matter.
Agreed, up to a point. However, it's a dangerous game they play, because their product is no longer competitive and it only takes one major company to counter-sue them to take them to the cleaners.
What this is really about is share value. They're hoping to cash in before their scam is exposed for the FUD it really is. And exposed it will be, long before it gets to court. They may well be demanding that everyone sign non-disclosure agreements, but you must remember that the code they will show is ALREADY in the public domain, so I'd be very surprised if that info wasn't leaked to the public very quickly indeed.
Furthermore, Novell entering the fray counts quite a bit. Corporations who might be considering bowing to pressure and dropping Linux will be thinking twice about investing in SCO as an alternative, seeing how precarious the position of that company is right now.
