I think SCO loses and they starve. It's a desperate move by desperate people. They have no case. IBM is countersuing to give their customers confidence that they're vigorously defending while hoping they can drain the SCO group of all their resources and will.
IBM has indemnified their customers against SCO, but it is still an issue.
While my brother is a manager at IBM, it has no bearing on my opinion. I keep up on IT stuff as I have final say on all purchases, and we get about 20 tech trade rags every week in the office.
I think SCOx case is much better then most pundits think. I am long. The disinformation, and vile critisiscm of the company reminds me alot of Qcom and RMBS in the early days. Now I think they have 50% chance of winning in court. I however dont believe IBM would take that risk, and chance a 5 billion verdict, and slowing of LINUX adoption. My guess is this gets settled or SCO gets bought.
please please please, you owe it to yourself to at least check out the discussions on groklaw ( http://www.groklaw.net/ ). folks from scox have had a long time to produce evidence of their claims, and they refused; when finally forced to by the court, there really is nothing ... (and if there *were* anything, it would be removed from linux by the end of the day it was revealed and the folks would rewrite it ...). this is a big deal to the linux community, and they would evicerate and rebuild linux first before allowing scox to profit off their work ...
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