I care, because I hope that SCO gets the comeuppance they deserve. It's pitiful when a linux company takes an 'income by litigation' approach after making several bad business decisions (Caldera buying the remants of SCO in the first place, failing to differentiate themselves in the linux market, etc. etc.) .
If you read anything Linus T. has posted about this stupidity, he seems pretty clear (and if anyone knew about this, he should, definitely better than SCO's stupid lawyers) that even in the remote chance there was System V code that was patented, and not already owned by NOVELL (not SCO) or otherwise, it would be a pretty fast fix to get it out and then SCO would again be up a creek because they couldn't charge Linux users ANYTHING to use the OS.
At present, the only major revealed licensee of SCO is (who else), Micro$oft, and we already know how much THEY care about using others' code (ask Spyglass how long it took M$ to pay them for the IE code, ask Stacker how M$ ripped them off for disk compression technology, ask Univ. of Berkeley about the rumours that the M$ TCP stack includes GPL BSD code, and even ask Caldera/SCO how M$ ripped them off on DR DOS) That last one should be evidence to Caldera/SCO that they aren't going to get anything out of this but a bunch of hatred and serious backlash at best, at worst they will be sued out of existence by IBM, I don't think there's going to be a settlement on this one....
kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com
