Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 2nd Dec 2006 18:35 UTC, submitted by deanlinkous
"A federal judge on Thursday gutted SCO Group's USD 5 billion, Linux-related lawsuit against IBM - renewing debate about the Utah company's future. Concluding a six-week review, US District Judge Dale Kimball upheld federal Magistrate Brooke Wells' June decision to strike down two-thirds of SCO's allegations. The Lindon-based software company contends IBM violated its contract and copyrights when it allegedly leaked SCO-owned Unix code into the freely-distributed Linux operating system.
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2005-12-31
>>I suspect SCOX fully expected IBM to buy them out and make the case go away, they were never prepared for IBM to put up a defense which is why their case has been so weak.<<
When ibm made it very apparent that ibm would not settle, scox showed no interest in dropping the lawsuit, far from it.
Scox got money from ibm and sunw, and that drove the share price way up. The share price is still way up.