SCO's plight looks bad
SCO took big hits this week -- both in the courts, and in the stock market. Regardless of what SCO's management decides to do, the company's stockholders seem to have finally had enough of the troubled company.
First, on Nov. 29, U.S. District Court Judge Dale Kimball affirmed Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells's June 28, 2006 Order. In that order, Wells dismissed 188 of SCO's claimed 294 examples of IBM contributing Unix code to Linux.
Nice summary of a very bad week for SCO. Kimball's ruling not only upholds all of Wells order, but leaves SCO with essentially no route for further appeal.
SCO is pretty much doomed now. They face two cases they can't win, either of which will destroy the company when they loose. The only downside I see is that it looks like Novell will get the first shot, which means IBM probably won't ever get a chance to sue SCO because SCO is going straight to bankruptcy after Novell.
Jay