] The courts will decide whether that hope will ever be ] rewarded with a big payoff. If SCO loses, the company is ] likely toast. But winning will be a tall order. SCO must ] show that the old, murky contracts between AT&T (which ] developed Unix), Novell (which bought the operating ] system from AT&T in 1993), and the old Santa Cruz ] Operation deliberately transferred the Unix copyrights to ] the new SCO Group; it also must show that it owns the ] rights to derivative flavors of Unix, like IBM's AIX. ] Finally, and perhaps most difficult, SCO must prove IBM ] and other Linux programmers around the world got sloppy ] and ported proprietary code into Linux. Legal experts ] tracking the case think each hurdle - let alone all three ] - is difficult to clear. The odds are clearly against ] SCO. A fantastic overview of SCO's business tactics since 2002. It states exact how many lawsuits SCO is in, against who, and about what. SCO: 2002 - present |