Comments on: SCO to cap legal expenses

Lawyers to get bigger share of any settlement in Linux suits in exchange for billing less up front.

[Earl Benser]

Can you spell Bankruptcy????

SCO is rapidly running out of money, and out of people who
believe that SCO's suits have any legal merit. It was a stupid
attempt in the first place, but SCO never had anything else that
could produce the income needed to stay in business. Now even
MS is beginning to realize the mistake of funding SCO.

Too Bad...Yeah, sure!!

[rkhalloran]

"Shareholder rights' plan" ?!?

They're talking as if somebody might actually WANT to buy them out; who'd touch this toxic-waste-dump? They might HOPE somebody will buy them out and save them from the oncoming legal judgments, but it's doubtful anyone with enough money is that dumb.

[mortis9]

i'm so confused about this whole thing

i'm so confused about this whole thing: if they truly own unix's intellectual property, then shouldn't they be making billions in licensing unix i.p. to Sun and Apple (both have operating systems based on unix) ??? how could patent infrigement lawsuits ever bring in that kind of money, compared with licensing rights to operating systems that have long dominated the server world, and every mac still in operation? What part of unix do they own, to what extent do they license that which they own, and to whom ???

[volterwd]

i hate lawyers...

always taking the money... but in this case they are screwing SCO over so its not a big deal