Much like the SCO lawsuit being good for Linux. For a white it was a lot of drama and fear, but in the end Linux came out stronger because it had been through i

Much like the SCO lawsuit being good for Linux. For a white it was a lot of drama and fear, but in the end Linux came out stronger because it had been through it. I have to disagree with this. If SCO actually had been arguing something interesting from a legal point of view, Linux (RH, IBM, Novell, etc. in this case) would have then had a more solid legal foundation. If, for example, this had been a case about GPL enforcement. However, SCO spent a long, long time obfuscating what exactly they were arguing about. They spent a long time (and lots of resources) trying to just wear down the defendants and get them to settle. When finally distilled by the totally awesome Judge Kimball and the defense teams, what was truly left was a small pile of crap, from a legal point of view. It did nothing to set precedents going forward, and we (as a society) didn't end up learning anything of value, other than that BSF (the main law firm for SCO) was morally bankrupt.