[jimkress]

The last part of this article may be a bit far-fetched but, Micro$oft's desire to destroy Linux is not a fable. Given some of their prior business 'acts', it may not be far-fetched to infer that the totally unsubstantiated SCO attack on Linux is Micro$oft inspired.

[Dominic Harr]

Just to add grist to the mill:

"Darl McBride, president and CEO continued, "These positive quarterly financial results, including net income for the first time in the Company's history, have strengthened our balance sheet and financial position. Our increased cash balance and working capital has positioned the Company for its launch of SCOx, our web services strategy, and will provide us with other opportunities to drive growth in future quarters."

SCO's next "big thing" is a "web services strategy" called SCOx?

And suddenly they've integrated Microsoft Active Directory. I wonder if more MS technology will be integrated soon?

Smoking gun? No.

But interesting, none the less. Something to watch in the future. Maybe a move to .NET for SCO?

Ah, never mind. Pure, random speculation here, folks. Just the ramblings of a senile old programmer. Nothing to see here. Move along.

[Liberal Classic]

I wouldn't give it any credence except for the fact that immediately after SCO's announcement, Microsoft agreed to pay SCO a lot of money for the privilage of having a Windows Services for Unix product which has been around for 3 years now.

[Mister Baredog]

Get out the "tin foil hats" the evil monster is at it again(>sarcasm on<)

[dark_lord]

Yeah. But the real joke about all this is...if it actually turns out that some small code fragments in Linux came from Unix (possible), it will be trivial to excise and replace them. Which Red Hat, for example, will do. Then everyone running Red Hat Linux does their normal auto update and zippity do da -- no more more Unix code fragements. That's the first thing. So from a practical perspective, no harm.

The second thing is...even without the Novell factor (which will almost surely cause SCO's case to be thrown out of court) they have to prove that IBM employees put the code snippets in. It is useless to sue IBM if some guy from HP, for example, in his spare time inserted 10 lines of Unix code which he lifted from HP-UX. So, unless SCO can prove that (and I doubt they can), they are just flushing their money down the toilet. And IBM has way deeper pockets than they do.

Finally, to collect "damages" you really have to prove that damage was done. Otherwise you might run into a situation where you "win" the case and get awarded one dollar. We have seen that happen a lot of times. I predict that if SCO actually takes this to trial (highly doubtful) and actually wins before they go out of business (highly doubtful), the damages they collect will be in the "one dollar" area.

[ikka]

With Microsoft's recent agreement to pay AOL $750million for settling out of court in crushing Netscape, we can look at the other payouts that MS has made over the years where they got caught outright stealing code and conclude that MS is a BILLION DOLLAR THIEF.

[Jay D. Dyson]

That's the problem with conspiracy theories. Conspiracies that exist are rarely suspected, and those that are suspected rarely exist.

All the same, I must confess that I would not be surprised in the least to learn that Microsoft had a hand in this entire mess. That would certainly fit their modus destructi.

-Jay

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Caldera's been sue happy for many years.

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-232441.html?legacy=cnet

It's a loser of a company like Sun.