[Gllug] Goodbye SCO

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 12:35 +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 12:05 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > In case anyone hasn't noticed SCO have filed for bankruptcy.
> 
> > Actually, they haven't: they've filed for protection from bankruptcy
> 
> Point taken however C11 is only protection if there is a way out of
> bankruptcy and if Novell is owed $20million and SCO has only $14million
> with other debts there is no way out for SCO unless Novell back off -
> Novell having so far shown every sign of wanting blood.
> 

Regardless of the downsides of this (the Chap 11) I think the big big
positive is that the first company to attempt to destroy the Linux
kernel project is now a shell, the kernel and the wider free software
project has won powerful and wealthy supporters (eg look at the way IBM
are now also supporting ooo).


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