] SCO's scheme is already unraveling. Now, after suing IBM ] when it refused to pay up or buy it out, hitting up ] Microsoft for a so called "license" for $10 million (that ] it probably didn't need) and mugging Sun for about $8 ] million in "protection" (likely a wash versus the cost of ] a lawsuit), SCO has apparently run out of big Unix ] vendors. HP and SGI aren't saying but they must have told ] SCO to take a hike. As have the largest Japanese Unix and ] Linux vendors, Fujitsu and NEC. So SCO has threatened big ] Linux users with potential lawsuits in a desperate ploy ] to replace flatlining Unix revenues. But most IT pundits ] and the users aren't buying SCO's FUD act. And the reason ] for this is vocal grass roots Open Source opposition from ] the Linux developer community and thousands of individual ] users. It is not what SCO expected when it launched its ] license extortion scam. |