[Bush2000]

But Darl McBride isn't to smart anyway...

McBride has a lawsuit pending against IBM for $1 billion -- and a reasonable shot of winning. You're posting tripe on a website. Gee... who's smarter...

[amigatec]

McBride has a lawsuit pending against IBM for $1 billion -- and a reaonable shot of winning.

A Snowball in Hell has a better chance.

[Glenn]

and a reasonable shot of winning

A zero shot of winning. IBM will paper them to death, as they did with the Feds in the 70's. SCO should have picked a better battle.

[dwollmann]

$3 billion, and a reasonable chance of making a total ass of himself and SCO's hapless stockholders.

[Dimensio]

McBride has a lawsuit pending against IBM for $1 billion -- and a reasonable shot of winning.

Really? Perhaps you could point out exactly which bit of the Linux source code is infringing, since SCO seems utterly unable to do so.

[tortoise]

McBride has a lawsuit pending against IBM for $1 billion -- and a reasonable shot of winning.

Nobody takes on IBM and wins. Not even the government. IBM is a veritable legal superpower with legendary staying power.

Ignoring that, the SCO's fundamental charge against IBM is breathtakingly idiotic. SCO is basically asserting that they own the rights to any code IBM added to licensed SCO code. By analogy, it would be like buying car and installing tires on it, and then having the tire company claim they own the intellectual property rights to your car as an extension of the tires.

This goes against legal precedent and is an extremely dubious case. Even if they had a reasonable legal case their odds of anything better than a Pyrrhic victory against IBM would be sketchy, so in this case you are definitely hitting the crack pipe if you think SCO has reasonable odds of winning. You'll notice that there is a huge rash of insider selling on SCO now that the price has bumped up. Apparently the SCO execs don't think there is a chance in hell of winning either...