SCO didn't lose all the lawsuits they bullied many small business into settling out of court for quite a bit of money. If I recall correctly they largely used

SCO didn't lose all the lawsuits they bullied many small business into settling out of court for quite a bit of money. If I recall correctly they largely used this in the case against IBM. Before that victory it was unclear to many what would happen and more than a few people thought that it would kill Linux or that everyone using computers would owe SCO money or some other dystopian ending was possible.