It is interesting in that it supposedly is an 'outsider's' assessment of the case.

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SCO and the Battle Over UNIX: A Clear Explanation
By Michael Faulkner, Eric Goldman.
Date: Jun 18, 2004.
[link|http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=175171|http://www.informit....icle.asp?p=175171]
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The 8 parts are all at the above link & have attracted quite a few comments. Interestingly, reading the comments shows how poorly people understand what is going on and who owns what.

The article itself is not too bad. I believe they tend to word parts of it as if SCO has some more legitimate claim than Groklaw evidence suggests.

Also, at the start they paint a *bit* of a distorted picture of how the industry is split over support for and against SCO - their justification for their remark is, they say, that Microsoft supports SCO but they fail to point out that Microsoft has a highly questionable moral and legal basis for this so-called support. There is a sort of implicit appearance that Microsoft supports SCO for some 'moral' software development reasons. They tend to gloss over the behind the scenes MS/Baystar manipulation.

But apart from my own reservations, the article is probably representative of how the broader IT interested community will be seeing the situation.

Doug Marker